conky needs a tiny patch to be able to talk to x11-wm/awesome via awesome-client. this is really useful since awesome doesn't behave well when it gathers stats internally, so by using conky we create a safety layer that allows the WM to work smoothly under heavy load. ( and conky has some neat features built-in anyway =] ) I've added a new USE flag, awesome, to conky's ebuild to toggle the patch on and off since non-awesome users won't like the extra \n added by the patch. the new ebuild and patch are available in my overlay, wirelay: http://github.com/wired/wirelay/tree/master/app-admin/conky I'll attach the patch and a diff for the in-tree ebuild below.
Created attachment 192100 [details, diff] conky patch that makes it work with awesome-client
Created attachment 192102 [details, diff] patch for in-tree conky ebuild adds awesome USE flag patches conky if use awesome
This has already been added upstream but the patch inclusion failed. It is now in again [1]. The way it was implemented does not need a use flag as it adds an additional config option to conkyrc which seems a better approach. So this should be fixed in conky-1.7.2. Feel free to add a patch if you need it desperately :-) [1] http://git.omp.am/?p=conky.git;a=commitdiff;h=f169e0e0719688cc1b80f474b9ccd7eae6006838
Nice. However it seems that awesome 3.3.1 (hardmasked) which I'm using now doesn't require any patch (tested and works fine with conky-1.7.0_rc1 and 1.7.1.1 w/o patch). So this patch will still be useful, but only for older awesome versions like latest ~arch :) Thanks for the update.
Fixed in conky-1.7.2_rc2.
