'conky: "unknown" x11 session running'

[LinuxOnTheDesktop]

Hello! Is the console message

conky: 'unknown' x11 session running

to be expected when running Conky on Linux Mint Cinnamon?

Context: I've just installed the latest release of conky, by fetching from github; I forget whether previously I used to see the message about an unknown session. (And I am running X as against Wayland.)

[Caellian]

Yeah... sort of. I added it in to improve WM specific behavior (e.g. struts on fluxbox) and make dealing with issues a bit quicker in some cases, not 100% sure which WM will be correctly detected yet because I don't have it in me to test all 20+ of them.

Anyway, just to verify. Can you run:

echo $XDG_SESSION_DESKTOP
echo $DESKTOP_SESSION
echo $GDMSESSION

and let me know whether any of those vars are set to something like "MATE" or "Marco"?

If not, setting XDG_SESSION_DESKTOP to "MATE" globally will improve how conky works on your PC (in future, does nothing special currently). It's a standard most WMs don't follow, but allows us to tweak behavior at runtime when needed. There's no MATE specific code yet, possibly never will be, but setting XDG_SESSION_DESKTOP to your WM name can't hurt (esp. if it's empty).

[LinuxOnTheDesktop]

Thanks.

$ echo $XDG_SESSION_DESKTOP
cinnamon
$ echo $DESKTOP_SESSION
cinnamon
$ echo $GDMSESSION
cinnamon

[S]etting XDG_SESSION_DESKTOP to your WM name can't hurt (esp. if it's empty).

Hmm. That variable reports 'cinnamon' (as noted above), but Mint Cinnamon's window manager is 'muffin' - or is muffin the 'compositor'? 😕

[Caellian]

Yes, muffin is the WM, internally conky stores it as muffin when session is cinnamon. It seems I'll need to update it to handle lowercase spelling or be case insensitive. But it doesn't do anything for now besides making issue reports more complete.