On Mon, 8 Sep 2008 10:47:31 +0530 Kapil Hari Paranjape wrote: [...] > On Thu, 21 Aug 2008, Francesco Poli wrote: [...] > > Since I upgraded from conky/1.5.1-1 to conky/1.6.0-1 I noticed a > > problem with its output: it seems that conky is no longer able > > to print an output longer than 256 bytes from a pre_exec > > directive. > > The man page says: > > text_buffer_size bytes > Size of the standard text buffer (default is 256 bytes). This > buffer is used for intermediary text, such as individual lines, > output from $exec vars, and various other variables. Increasing > the size of this buffer can drastically reduce Conky's performance, > but will allow for more text display per variable. The size of this > buffer cannot be smaller than the default value of 256 bytes.
I've tried and put # set buffer size (in bytes) for exec outputs text_buffer_size 512 in my ~/.conkyrc configuration file. It seems to work! :-) Thanks for pointing this change out (I hadn't noticed it, I should have searched for "256" in the man page, me idiot!). > > I don't have the man page for the older conky handy but presumably > this was not the way things were in 1.4.x. I wonder why conky/1.4.x-y seemed to have no fixed buffer size for exec outputs... Better design? Or just larger buffer size?!? ;-) > Do you think it should go > into NEWS.Debian? Yeah, maybe a little note in NEWS.Debian could be useful... -- http://frx.netsons.org/doc/index.html#nanodocs The nano-document series is here! ..................................................... Francesco Poli . GnuPG key fpr == C979 F34B 27CE 5CD8 DC12 31B5 78F4 279B DD6D FCF4
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