Conky calendar not working in LM19 [solved]

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Conky calendar not working in LM19 [solved]

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Two identical conkys running on two near identical T430s, one running LM18.3 the other LM19.0.

The LM18.3 conky displays correctly:
Screenshot from 2018-10-26 14-44-59.png
The LM19 conky is missing the calendar:
LM19 conky calendar.png
The relevant lines from the conky are:

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${color0}${font Andale Mono:size=9}${execpi 43200 VinDSL_Cal_8=`date +%-d`; cal -h | sed -e '1d' -e 's/\<'"$VinDSL_Cal_8"'\>/${color red}
I have to admit that I ripped off this from someone else's conky a long while back. Note, also have this running on my 'home brew' running LM19.0 (see sig line) and it is producing the same result - no calendar.

What's gone wrong between 18.3 and 19.0?
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Thinkcentre M720Q - LM21.3 cinnamon, 4 x T430 - LM21.3 cinnamon, Homebrew desktop i5-8400+GTX1080 Cinnamon 19.0
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Re: Conky calendar not working in LM19

Post by WharfRat »

There's an odd change to cal in Tara for reasons unknown to me :?

Use ncal -bh in place of cal.
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Re: Conky calendar not working in LM19

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Thanks, I'll try that.

edit - worked!
Thinkcentre M720Q - LM21.3 cinnamon, 4 x T430 - LM21.3 cinnamon, Homebrew desktop i5-8400+GTX1080 Cinnamon 19.0
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