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Conky issue on RPi 4 on Bookworm


 

Hello all!

I run several Pis with BAP. My main Pi 4 8gb is used mostly in the home shack for remote FT8 over VNC, as well as POTA. It's on Bullseye, and it's been super reliable. BAP/73Linux features are very valuable to me.

I'm building a new Pi to use with a new-to-me FT-891. As such, I've decided to try out Bookworm, and I'm having some issues.
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So far, I've:
-installed the latest image of Raspberry Pi OS
-ran 73Linux for the items I want (conky and others)
-switched from Wayland to X11 so RealVNC works
-got RealVNC working the way I need (adjusted config.txt with a few minor lines of code to force a console size, and hdmi_force_hotplug to resolve fullscreen window sizing issues)
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But Conky has been a real issue. With hdmi_force_hotplug=1 implemented, it's in the right spot, but it's basically just a black box, with no text. I've done some reading, and it seems it's a colour interpretation issue. I was able to edit .conkyrc to change one line to "draw_outline = true,", and I end up with the attached screenshot.
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Any ideas how I can move forward to make Conky work properly? I mean, at least now it's usable... but barely.

Oh - Where did the option to change the temps to Celsius get moved to? It used to be in Conky-prefs, I don't see it now.
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Thanks in advance!
73 Joseph VE3GKT


 

Whoops! Here's the screenshot. This is with "draw_outline = true,".
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Perhaps it's a bug with this version of conky? Here's a helpful thread:

pi@raspberrypi:~ $ apt search conky
Sorting... Done
Full Text Search... Done
conky/stable,now 1.18.3-1 all [installed]
? highly configurable system monitor (transitional package)
conky-all/stable,now 1.18.3-1 armhf [installed]
? highly configurable system monitor (all features enabled)
conky-cli/stable 1.18.3-1 armhf
? highly configurable system monitor (basic version)
conky-std/stable,now 1.18.3-1 armhf [residual-config]
? highly configurable system monitor (default version)
pi@raspberrypi:~ $?