I just installed conky which I can run normally. I installed a theme and made a .conkyrc folder in my home directory. When i am trying to run conky I got this message:
conky: cannot read /home/.../.conkyrc: Is a directory
What is the problem?
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According to the conky 1.10.8 man file, the default configuration file location (in userspace) is $HOME/.config/conky/conky.conf. However, the default location was formerly $HOME/.conkyrc (I'm not sure when it was changed...), and a check of this location was probably retained in later conky versions for backward compatibility. I use conky 1.10.8 (upgraded over the years), still have my config file at $HOME/.conkyrc, and conky still takes it as a default location. So, conky is looking for a file named .conkyrc rather than a folder with that name in $HOME.
Change your folder (i.e. directory) name to something other than .conkyrc, and conky should no longer generate the "cannot read" message.
Also, as noted in man conky, if you want to load a config file from a location other than the default, you can use the -c command line option.
David Yockey
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