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How to prevent conky from populating ~/.xsession-errors

Asked by Vish

I use several if_mounted , and if_* variables in my conky , these keep populating the ~/.xsession-errors file when the drives are not mounted, while these errors are not major. the other xsession-errors get overwritten , since he conky output is for every minute.

Is there a way to prevent such errors/output from being written in the ~/.xsession-errors.

Also , why is this being done? IMO , it seems like an overkill.

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Cesare Tirabassi (norsetto) said : 		#1

As mentioned in bug 405188, a simple workaround is to redirect stderr to /dev/null or a log file.
The way conky is designed now, file system stats are collected regularly even for partitions that are iffed. The only advise I can give you is to report this upstream (a fix for bug 405188 will not necessarily address this aspect).

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Best Cesare Tirabassi (norsetto) said : 		#2

It should also be mentioned that conky can be run with the -q, --quiet option if one doesn't want *any* output.

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Vish (vish) said : 		#3

Wow thanx , that really solved the problem.

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Vish (vish) said : 		#4

Thanks Cesare Tirabassi, that solved my question.