** Description changed:
Depending of your configuration, sometimes Conky exit after a random
time with the message "you don't need that many fonts, sorry". This
occurs when Conky try to use more than 256 fonts (see fonts.c line 73).
Except if you really use more than 256 fonts, this is a bug occurs when
you have fonts objects placed after a ${if} block.
Exemple :
${if_match ${upspeedf eth0} > 0}${color2}${endif} ${font PizzaDude
Bullets:size=10}O${font}
In this case Conky will allocate too much fonts along the time. Each
time the ${if} condition change (true -> false or false -> true) the
index of the font object (stored in the "specials" array defined in
specials.c) will change and conky will reallocate a new font object
(specials.c, function new_font(), line 341). The reason is that
s->font_added is set to zero because the font object has been shifted by
-1 or +1 in the specials array.
There is a workaround to this issue, but really possible only if you
have only a few objects in the ${if} block. The solution consist to add
an ${else} block and pad it with dummy objects. Exactly the same number
you have in the ${if} block !
${if_match ${upspeedf eth0} > 0}${color2}${else}${color1}${endif} ${font
PizzaDude Bullets:size=10}O${font}
In this case Conky will not allocate extra fonts along the time.
I will try to work on a patch for this issue but help will be appreciate :)
And sorry for my English...
- Release info :
- Description: Ubuntu 12.04.4 LTS
- Release: 12.04
-
- Package info :
- 1.9.0-2~ubuntu12.04.1 0
- 100 http://fr.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise-backports/universe i386
Packages
- Seems to impact all version of conky.
+ ProblemType: Bug
+ DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04.4 LTS
+ Package: conky 1.9.0-2~ubuntu12.04.1
+ Uname: 3.2.0-58-generic-pae
+ Architecture: i386
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