[Bug]: Conky uses 30% CPU when run via i3's config

[siliconsniffer]

[Bug]: Conky uses 30% CPU when run via i3's config

[Caellian]

It's hard to tell what's wrong - newer version does use a bit more CPU as it listens for global cursor events. I'll be improving that soon so that builds without BUILD_MOUSE_EVENTS are more performant.

I'm closing this for now as resolved (as it will be in a few days, with proper build flags). Let me know if you need this issue reopened.

[siliconsniffer]

Killing the process and reloading i3's config works, so there must be something wrong when it runs for the first time. I think conky also doesn't get killed when closing the X session, as terminating and starting it again resulted in multiple instances.

[Caellian]

Give a try to stating conky with exec conky -DD >> /var/log/conky from i3 script and see whether that does the trick.

It might be worth adding logging to a file by default. It would help situations like these.

[Caellian]

I managed to recreate this a few days ago. Will report back once fixed.

EDIT: No, sorry, I recreated another issue (which was fixed).

[Caellian]

@siliconsniffer Can you send me your i3 config and conky config files?

I need first one so I don't have to write it from scratch to faithfully recreate your environment, and the second one so I know if it's some option/variable that's causing issues.

In the meantime, try latest version (1.20) and let me know if the issue persists.

[siliconsniffer]

Hi, sorry for the late response - at least on my PC it works using:
exec_always --no-startup-id conky -c ~/.config/conky/config.lua
I'll test it on my laptop and report back, no clue what might have caused the high cpu usage.

• running the same command seems to only cause minor additional cpu usage on my laptop