Re: [Conky-users] text_buffer_size question

[Jostein B. <jb...@br...>]

On 31.05.11,15:03, Anthropornis Nordenskjoldi wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> 
> This is my first post. While I have been playing with my Conky config, I
> noticed in the terminal output some differences when using different values
> for text_buffer_size.  When the value was 1024, the terminal would keep
> scrolling a continuous stream of:
> 
> *Conky: The end of the text_buffer is reached, increase text_buffer_size
> *
> 
> So I wondered if this would make Conky unstable and prone to crash. I
> increased the value to 2000 before the terminal output would go away. It
> does go away at that value, however, the visual output of Conky on my screen
> is then messed up.
> 
> Moreover, I noted in the Conky documentation that a higher value for this
> setting will use up more computer resources.
> 
> This is screenshot with text buffer size set to 1024:
> http://i.imgur.com/vsrl0.png
> 
> This is screenshot with text buffer size set to 2000, note how the terminal
> output looks more calm, but the lefthand Conky instance has lines spilling
> onto second rows now:
> http://i.imgur.com/SsiNn.png
> 
> So I wondered if I can safely ignore the "Conky: The end of the text_buffer
> is reached, increase text_buffer_size" message, or if not, what is another
> setting I can change to restore the visual desktop output to single lines
> when using a text_buffer_size value of 2000?
> 

Could you try to set it to 2048 instead?

http://crunchbanglinux.org/forums/topic/402/conky-not-displaying-full-output-from-execpi/


Jostein