[Solved] A conky shortcut problem

double_crane · Last edited by double_crane on Sat Sep 21, 2013 4:28 pm; edited 1 time in total

Problem: conky doesn't show hard disk temperature ,when start conky by shortcut ;and show hdd temp when run conky in terminal command line.

I emerged conky with hddtemp use.
and I had chmod +s /usr/sbin/hddtemp

and in ~/.conkyrc:

Anon-E-moose · Posted: Sat Sep 21, 2013 4:07 pm Post subject:

try /usr/sbin/hddtemp and see if that won't work

or use the conky built in variable

double_crane · Posted: Sat Sep 21, 2013 4:28 pm Post subject:

Mistwolf · Posted: Sat Sep 21, 2013 4:38 pm Post subject:

{hddtemp /dev/sdx} is valid only if conky was compiled with the hddtemp use flag enabled.

Hope this helps.[/code]

Anon-E-moose · Posted: Sat Sep 21, 2013 4:50 pm Post subject:

It's ${hddtemp /dev/sda} not {hddtemp /dev/sda}
and yes it works, that's how I have mine set up.

http://conky.sourceforge.net/variables.html

As far as hddtemp's path, it may be in your path as user, but might not be when run from a shortcut.
When in doubt, I always use the full path (makes it a smidgen faster than following $PATH lookup)

Anyway glad it's solved.
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