user_times reports wrong values

[Cesare Tirabassi]

This was originally reported as part of bug #405188. I'm opening as a separate bug report for traceability sake.

[Cesare Tirabassi (norsetto)]

Fix was committed upstream (http://git.omp.am/?p=conky.git;a=commitdiff;h=da06200e437456b39b55177a5d5162966a16b695) and is in the pipeline for 1.7.2 as well

[Vish (vish)]

Also, the ttyX and the time reported flows as a single sentence,
note that the user_times is reported as tty709h 19m > when it should be tty7 09h19m

When the next pts is added , it just shows as > tty7/pts009h 19m05h 30min ,
The spacing also needs to be corrected, Spacing in between the the time hrs and min is not required , whereas the space needs to be infront of the time shown.

[Vish (vish)]

tried your ppa, the user_time is now correct, great... :)

But the spacing between the times is still the same , makes it difficult to read , especially after the sec has been added,
can the spacing be corrected?

[Cesare Tirabassi (norsetto)]

It can be done but I'd rather prefer to rethink about the whole thing since I personally don't like the way the code works now. You should raise a wishlist bug either here or upstream about it so that its not forgotten.

[Vish (vish)]

Ok.. no problem , i'll file a wishlist bug...

But there is something wrong with the ppa, it throws off the offsets ,
I'm attaching a screenshot , I'v underlined the errors, the ppa is on the left[note the correct user_times] , everything gets mal-aligned ...
To get the screenshot on the right i just forced the conky version in the repo[you can see the wrong user time][the .conkyrc is the same for both the screenshot. ]

Is this something anticipated? does the conky now need to be adjusted to the new settings?

[Vish (vish)]

Oops , not the offset, all the $goto are wrong.

[Cesare Tirabassi (norsetto)]

Unfortunately you have to update your .conkyrc to reflect the new changes. There were some problems with the way $goto behaved which have been fixed.

[Vish (vish)]

Oh... ok...
BTW , i'm trying to see if the conky crash occurs again. will report *if* i'm able to consistently reproduce it.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package conky - 1.7.2-0ubuntu1

---------------
conky (1.7.2-0ubuntu1) karmic; urgency=low

  * New upstream release:
    - Improved Lua API (lua_read_parse has been removed in favour of the
      conky_parse() Lua API call).
    - Cairo and Imlib2 bindings for Lua.
    - Built-in weather support.
    - Added own_window_type panel.
    - Added border_inner_margin and border_outer_margin.
      The border_margin config option is now deprecated.
    - Added format_human_readable option.
    - Added fancy new 'temperature gradients'.
    - Several new variables such as $blink, $curl, $desktop, $entropy_perc,
      $swapfree, $to_byte and $top_io.
    - Comments in TEXT section are now possible.
      If necessary the comment character (#) can be escaped with a
      backslash (\#).
    - Added a different default configuration file for builds without X11.
    - Added io_perc, io_read and io_write to $top.
    - Alignment special variables can now be used with objects that span
      multiple lines.
    - Enhanced Imlib2 cache control.
    - $battery_short can now also display F (full), N (not present),
      E (empty) or U (unknown).
    - Counteless bug fixes (LP: #405701, LP: #405340, LP: #405188).
  * Complete overhaul of the packaging (LP: #294933, LP: #387209):
    3 binary packages are now created: conky-cli, conky and conky-all.
    conky-cli is a basic package that could be used in servers
    or piped with dzen2,
    conky supports the most commonly used variables,
    conky-all includes almost all of the available support.
    Use conky-all if you are not sure of your needs.
    Some of the packaging changes include:
    - copyright is now in line with the new format specification
    - rules has been overly simplified
    - short/long descriptions have been updated
    - TODO is not installed anymore, lua.html is installed
    - README.Debian has been obsoleted
    - no change bump of Standards-Version
    - added NEWS and README.source
    - changed automake from automake1.10 to automake1.11, since the former
      has been obsoleted.

 -- Cesare Tirabassi <email address hidden> Tue, 25 Aug 2009 11:27:23 +0200

[Vish (vish)]

Now user times counts down backwards! from the UTC , i get time -5.30 hrs!