Compatibility

This page describes known compatibility issues that can't be properly addressed from our side.

tint2

Tint2 listens for desktop/root events in order to detect window focus changes. When conky forwards some events (like cursor movement) to the desktop, it makes tint2 crash. This happens because tint2 tries handling those events like they were aimed from a window, but as they weren't, a bad memory read occurs which crashes it.

Here's a patch for tint2 addressing those issues. You can clone and build tint2 according to instructions provided in its repository, you just have to apply the patch after clone and checkout by running:

curl https://gist.githubusercontent.com/Caellian/334a31b00ddeaec2b124a8e66125e251/raw/fixes.patch | git apply -