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Bug 340071 - app-admin/conky - USE-flag to disable xdamage extension
Summary: app-admin/conky - USE-flag to disable xdamage extension
Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Current packages (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: High normal (vote)
Assignee: Daniel Pielmeier
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Reported: 2010-10-07 15:16 UTC by Nikolaj Šujskij
Modified: 2018-08-18 21:27 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Patch against app-admin/conky-1.8.1adding IUSE="noxdamage" (conky-noxdamage.patch,1.43 KB, patch)
2010-10-07 15:20 UTC, Nikolaj Šujskij 		Details | Diff
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Description Nikolaj Šujskij 2010-10-07 15:16:19 UTC 
If conky (up to v. 1.8.1) is built with xdamage support (--enable-xdamage, which is set with USE="+X" in Gentoo), then conky in own "normal" window* eats up to 100% of CPU core (together with X process) in non-reparenting WMs (Xmonad, dwm, awesome).

Building it without support for Xdamage X11 extension fixes the problem, but current USE set doesn't permit it. Please add IUSE="noxdamage" for users to be capable to use Conky in described way. Patch attached

[*] in conkyrc:
 own_window yes
 own_window_type normal

Reproducible: Always




Relevant links

Xmonad bug report: http://code.google.com/p/xmonad/issues/detail?id=193#c3

Conky bug report: http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1662692&group_id=143975&atid=757308
Comment 1 Nikolaj Šujskij 2010-10-07 15:20:53 UTC 
Created attachment 249853 [details, diff]
Patch against app-admin/conky-1.8.1adding IUSE="noxdamage"
Comment 2 Lupo Alberto 2010-10-08 06:45:04 UTC 
This bug is completely reproducible and well on my «x86» system (mostly stable branch of the portage tree, but  x11-wm/awesome-3.4.8 ).
Comment 3 Brenden Matthews 2010-10-14 23:41:12 UTC 
Can you please confirm that using "alignment none" doesn't work?

i.e., conky -a none
Comment 4 Nikolaj Šujskij 2010-10-16 15:10:08 UTC 
 Yes, `alignment none` doesn't help here.

> Can you please confirm that using "alignment none" doesn't work?
> 
> i.e., conky -a none
>
Comment 5 Daniel Pielmeier gentoo-dev 2010-11-21 12:50:09 UTC 
I don't think I will add an use flag for this, this would be just a workaround.

@Brenden: Is there a way to fix this in conky?
Comment 6 Nikolaj Šujskij 2011-08-31 13:27:46 UTC 
It is not fix as such, but workaround sufficient for me: with `own_window_type desktop` conky window is managed by awesome just as normal one, but doesn't eat CPU like mad.
Comment 7 Nikolaj Šujskij 2018-08-18 18:37:54 UTC 
Seems to be fixed in app-admin/conky-1.10.8-r2
Comment 8 Daniel Pielmeier gentoo-dev 2018-08-18 21:27:14 UTC 
Thanks for the feedback!