Recently, I have been working at understanding, building, and using Wayland/SwayWM as my regular computing environment. Given I continue to be in the ‘early days’ of this adventure, I have had to address several usage ‘worries’. One of my concerns had been fixing and using conky on my desktop, over the years I have become a great fan of Conky.
Now I can report and show, how to make Conky work on SwayWM. I presume it will function on other Wayland desktop systems, as well.
@Unklar provided me with the solution to this dilemma you may read it via this link.
As you will notice, Conky itself has been enhanced to address its ability to run on Wayland. Making this happen involves the addition of one simple command in your conky config section:
out_to_wayland = true,
Here is an image (on my SwayWM desktop) of Conky ‘in action’.
This is a link to the entirety of my conky for this desktop, both conkies are included. Feel free to edit and use these conkies in your application and work.
Remember, like with all of my work, I am able to provide the following assurance(s):
- It is almost certainly going to work until it breaks; although I have to admit it may never work and that would be sad.
- When/if it does break, you may keep all of the pieces.
- If you find my materials helpful, both you & I will be happy, at least for a little while.
- My advice is worth every penny you paid for it!
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