Conky

[feliwyn]

Hi!

Totally no support of conky?
No conky-bar, and no conky on my desktop. :)

[ddevault]

I haven't tried. I wouldn't expect much.

[kon14]

almost works with xwayland enabled, positioning is somewhat broken (edit2: come to think of it that was due to my tiling 2 separate instances)

edit: not that each conky instance acting like a window (check your conky config) won't work as expected sway (and possibly tiling wms for X too) unless you set a rule and let the window class float.

[juju2143]

Conky works quite fine for me. I even wrote a lua script to get the current workspace. Allow me to share my config I did after many trial and error: https://gist.github.com/juju2143/aece6992955462333712

Of course, starting from commit 6596582, you can set out_to_x = false and out_to_console = true in conky.conf and do a exec "swaybar 0 conky" instead in your sway config, but it will look less good.

[ddevault]

Adding something along the lines of exec swaybar to your sway config is not a future proof solution, by the way. Sometime in the near future, sway will run swaybar itself (and the command line usage of swaybar is undocumented and likely to change).

[juju2143]

Yeah, I know. You gotta follow the development of swaybar and make the necessary changes in your config as soon as they come out. Right now, swaybar only serves to reserve some space at the bottom so I can draw conky on it, but that would be nice if you can do that directly in conky somehow.

[onny]

Wow juju2143, do you mind sharing a screenshot of a working example? Looking forward to trying it out!

[juju2143]

Sure. (Sorry for the ponies, though. xD)

Edit: Also I see bar { } getting implemented in the commit log today, gotta try this out.

[onny]

Now I'm using sway with i3status and this configuration:
status_command i3status
Unfortunately I don't have the colors of i3status in the swaybar :(

[mikkeloscar]

@onny The colors hasn't been implemented yet, but I'm sure it will happen soon.

[onny]

Thanks for the info, sounds awesome :)

[juju2143]

Colors would be nice. Are they supposed to be the standard ANSI escape codes?

[mikkeloscar]

@juju2143 no, swaybar is supposed to implement the i3bar protocol: http://i3wm.org/docs/i3bar-protocol.html so the colors should be provided as part of the json data.

[onny]

Looks like there's already a pull request for that #394 (comment) :)

[onny]

I changed i3status output_format to i3bar but unfortunately swaybar doesn't render it :(

[progandy]

This is how it looks for me:

[onny]

Do you have i3status as input? And how did you configure it?

[feliwyn]

Wooow! I don't understand why are you speaking about i3bar. I can't use sway without conky. I like my conky bar :<

[progandy]

@onny: Yes, I have i3status. I configured it with output_format=i3bar, colors=true and interval=5.
@feliwyn: Works with conky, too. Currently you have to send everything on a single line with less than 1024 characters total. I guess there might be some problems with buffers.

[feliwyn]

Ow... Some prob for me. My conky conf is here : https://github.com/feliwyn/i3config

[onny]

i3status config:

general {
        output_format = i3bar
        colors = true
        interval = 5
}

sway config:

    bar {
        status_command i3status
        font pango:DejaVu Sans Mono 8
    }

i3status output:

{"version":1}
[
[{"name":"ipv6","color":"#00FF00","full_text":"2a02:8071:****"},{"name":"disk_info","instance":"/","full_text":"1.0 GiB"},{"name":"run_watch","instance":"/var/run/dhclient*.pid","color":"#FF0000","full_text":"DHCP: no"},{"name":"run_watch","instance":"/var/run/vpnc/pid","color":"#FF0000","full_text":"VPN: no"},{"name":"wireless","instance":"wlp2s0","color":"#00FF00","full_text":"W: (077% at ***) 192.168.1.33"},{"name":"ethernet","instance":"enp3s0","color":"#FF0000","full_text":"E: down"},{"name":"battery","instance":"/sys/class/power_supply/BAT1/uevent","full_text":"FULL 93.18%"},{"name":"load","full_text":"0.25"},{"name":"tztime","full_text":"2015-12-22 22:33:28"}]

But whole swaybar is somehow broken after that :(

[juju2143]

@progandy Oh, that might be why I couldn't see anything in the bar after switching to the JSON format in my Conky config.

Otherwise, fun fact, if you switch to the Lua config format, you can put somewhere in your config these lines, before config.text:

print([[{"version":1},
[
[],]])

and you can directly put exec conky in status_command in your bar config.

[juju2143]

Oh, it works as of 23df7ed now. Looks like a pretty simple fix.

[onny]

Yep nice, it works for me now! Thank you!

[progandy]

@feliwyn Can you try it with these changes #402?

[feliwyn]

@progandy Yeah! It's works!

But found another probleme. (I can open a new issue, if necessary)
Mode doesn't show their 'menu'

https://paste.feliwyn.fr/?f11f28ed7b8123f2#1yzDh9Tfar5EZPo3hKvshoLp0qnuTPF9dq4btkGd09c=

For exemple, in this paste, the text : "resize" isn't show. So, you don't really now if you are in the mode or no.
Like here : http://i.imgur.com/oAj31Fl.png

[ddevault]

That's covered by this issue:

#343