• Registered: 2010-09-02
  • Posts: 347

Topic: IceWM one weird little annoyance

In IceWM I have conky running on the desktop. 
When I shutdown the laptop, it puts up a pop-up saying that I will lose unsaved changes from conky if I shutdown.
Is there a way to stop this warning ?

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  • From: Panama
  • Registered: 2011-04-26
  • Posts: 115

Re: IceWM one weird little annoyance

Hmm, i don't use conky.
A shot in the dark: did you save/exit from your editor when you change things in your .conkyrc?

Do you restart icewm to make changes effective? Ctrl+Alt+Delete+r?

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  • Registered: 2010-09-02
  • Posts: 347

Re: IceWM one weird little annoyance

Using the same conkyrc I have used for a couple of years, I saved the changes long ago.
Yes I restarted IceWM.
It seems that conky being a running program IceWM expects output to be saved.

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  • Registered: 2010-08-03
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Re: IceWM one weird little annoyance

Is conky started in icewm startup or in .xinitrc?

  • From: Panama
  • Registered: 2011-04-26
  • Posts: 115

Re: IceWM one weird little annoyance

If you use .xinitrc to enter the X system, you should have a line like this:

conky &
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  • Registered: 2010-09-02
  • Posts: 347

Re: IceWM one weird little annoyance

Conky is started in IceWM startup.
I use xsessions, as my Debian install began with, no .xinitrc.
None of the other window managers or Xfce give a warning about conky on shutdown.
The line in my IceWM startup is

sleep 3 && conky -c .conkyrc-wm &
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  • From: Panama
  • Registered: 2011-04-26
  • Posts: 115

Re: IceWM one weird little annoyance

Just for the hell of it, put:

conky &

to see what happens...

Last edited by macondo123 (2011-07-26 21:53:57)

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