Start a script on resume. [SOLVED]

Sector11 · 2025-07-03 17:07:19

Conky Manager 2 Never did like Conky Manager.

At the bottom of this link check out the original poster ↓↓↓↓

Originally posted The Ubuntu Forums ubuntuforums.org

Nice to know Ubuntu is still giving me credit for my 2008 post on how to setup conky.

I can't see it anymore as I am no longer signed in to Ubuntu forums.

I'm still using conky v1.9.0 so:

System config file: /etc/conky/conky.conf
Package library path: /usr/lib/conky

apply to me.

No idea where Brandon has put them in the latest conky.

But starting a conky (v1.9) in any place other than the two defaults;
1st: /etc/conky/conky.conf or
2nd: ~/.conkyrc (only if created & becomes the default)
has always required the full path.

sleekmason · 2025-07-04 14:13:18

Works well. Nice. Added bl-run-user to /usr/local/bin for ease of future use.

Sector11 · 2025-07-04 14:33:00

sleekmason wrote:

Works well. Nice. Added bl-run-user to /usr/local/bin for ease of future use.

How did you hard code it to start with $USER?
EDIT: NM I see where john said copy/past .

Last edited by Sector11 (2025-07-04 15:35:41)

Sector11 · 2025-07-04 15:58:03

Still not working.
All three are executable.
1

/usr/local/bin/bl-run-user

→ John's script verbatim

2

/lib/systemd/system-sleep/bl-user-resume

#!/bin/sh

case $1 in
  post)
    /usr/local/bin/bl-run-user sector11 /home/sector11/bin/resume-3-conkys
    ;;
esac

3

/home/sector11/bin/resume-3-conkys

#!/bin/bash

##  see
##  /usr/local/bin/bl-run-user
##  and 
## /lib/systemd/system-sleep/bl-user-resume

conky -q -c /media/5/Conky/S11_Keybinds.conky &
conky -q -c /media/5/Conky/S11_Rem_Cal.conky &
conky -q -c /media/5/Conky/S11_Dates.conky &

exit

Still they do not run. All three are executable.

Directories in my path:

   $ $PATH
bash: /home/sector11/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/local/games:/usr/games:/sbin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/sbin: No such file or directory

EDIT: Fixed the Tpyo Knig's input See sleekmasons post below.

Last edited by Sector11 (2025-07-04 15:59:17)

sleekmason · 2025-07-04 16:47:51

Howdy @Sector11
You have a typo in this line:

/user/local/bin/bl-run-user sector11 /home/sector11/bin/resume-3-conkys

Should be

/usr/local/bin/bl-run-user sector11 /home/sector11/bin/resume-3-conkys

or if directly in your path, you can get away with just:

bl-run-user sector11 /home/sector11/bin/resume-3-conkys

Sector11 · 2025-07-04 18:05:49

@ Sleekmason Well they do call me the Tpyo Knig for a reason.

Thanks, will correct.

EDIT: And that's a wrap!

Last edited by Sector11 (2025-07-04 18:28:46)

Sector11 · 2025-07-04 18:13:47

To all, PackRat, johnraff, unklar, marens and sleekmason, thank you for your input.

Special thanks to johnraff for the slick fix and sleekmason for finding the Tpyo Knigs input.

SOLVED!

unklar · 2025-07-04 18:20:34

Hi @sleekmason, good to see you and I hope you are well.
Hi @Sector11, my friend

The solution presented by @johnraff works well here.

I had taken a different approach yesterday and today, using a script by @TomL from the debian-forum:
the script:

nano /usr/local/bin/journal-entry

    #!/bin/bash
    echo "User=unklar, Parm1=$1 Parm2=$2 Parm3=$3" | systemd-cat -t "unklar:`basename $0`" -p info
    exit 0

Then I created a service-unit with this content:

nano /usr/local/lib/systemd/system/after-suspend.service

    [Unit]
    Description=unklar:after-suspend.service: Start at suspend
    DefaultDependencies=no
    After=suspend.target

    [Service]
    Type=oneshot
    Environment=DISPLAY=:0
    ExecStart=/usr/local/bin/journal-entry "started from after-suspend.service "active/running" unklar "/home/unklar/.conky/rcmus_conkyrc10 &

    [Install]
    RequiredBy=suspend.target

then created a symlink

systemctl enable after-suspend.service
Created symlink '/etc/systemd/system/suspend.target.requires/after-suspend.service' → '/usr/local/lib/systemd/system/after-suspend.service'.

(all as root)

restart

Unfortunately, my solution does not (yet) work because I cannot find the error.

ls -l journal-entry
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 130  4. Jul 13:24 journal-entry

ls -l after-suspend.service
-rwxrwxr-x 1 root root 378  4. Jul 16:52

# systemctl status after-suspend.service
× after-suspend.service - unklar:after-suspend.service: Start at suspend
     Loaded: loaded (/usr/local/lib/systemd/system/after-suspend.service; enabled; preset: enabled)
     Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Fri 2025-07-04 18:56:44 CEST; 3min 34s ago
 Invocation: 9e380b882e8046879bd090dc82bb5137
    Process: 17376 ExecStart=/usr/local/bin/journal-entry started from after-suspend.service active/running unklar /home/unklar/.conky/rcmus_conkyrc10 & (code=exited, status=203/EXEC)
   Main PID: 17376 (code=exited, status=203/EXEC)
   Mem peak: 1.8M
        CPU: 9ms

Jul 04 18:56:44 T500 systemd[1]: Starting after-suspend.service - unklar:after-suspend.service: Start at suspend...
-->Jul 04 18:56:44 T500 (al-entry)[17376]: after-suspend.service: Failed to execute /usr/local/bin/journal-entry: Exec format error
-->Jul 04 18:56:44 T500 (al-entry)[17376]: after-suspend.service: Failed at step EXEC spawning /usr/local/bin/journal-entry: Exec format error
Jul 04 18:56:44 T500 systemd[1]: after-suspend.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=203/EXEC
Jul 04 18:56:44 T500 systemd[1]: after-suspend.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
Jul 04 18:56:44 T500 systemd[1]: Failed to start after-suspend.service - unklar:after-suspend.service: Start at suspend.

Sector11 · 2025-07-04 18:23:38

Did a suspend - resume and shortened my "S11 Dates" and "Retires | Reminders" conkys because of personal info, but there it is with FF still running in the background.

Sector11 · 2025-07-04 18:27:52

unklar wrote:

Hi @Sector11, my friend
{snip}
The solution presented by @johnraff works well here.

Hi unklar ...

You're better at coding than I am I'm sure you'll figure it out if for no other reason: just to do it.

marens · 2025-07-05 00:20:40

johnraff wrote:

... and of course change "john" to your username, and the paths to bl-run-user and your conky script to whatever you used:
#!/bin/sh

case $1 in
  post)
    /home/john/scripts/bl-run-user john /home/john/scripts/conky-test-script
    ;;
esac

Is it possible to use $whoami instead of different usernames ( "john" ) ?

$ whoami
marens

Something like this:

#!/bin/sh

case $1 in
  post)
    user_name=$(whoami)
    /home/$user_name/scripts/bl-run-user $user_name /home/$user_name/scripts/conky-test-script
    ;;
esac

Last edited by marens (2025-07-05 00:24:20)

unklar · 2025-07-06 12:29:41

Since @S11 has marked his thread as resolved, I'd like to continue this here: https://forums.bunsenlabs.org/viewtopic … 14#p144314
It still remains a ‘shooting at sparrows with cannons’ problem but, as @johnraff already wrote, it has also aroused my interest

Last edited by unklar (2025-07-06 13:05:30)

johnraff · 2025-07-07 06:44:29

marens wrote:

johnraff wrote:
... and of course change "john" to your username, and the paths to bl-run-user and your conky script to whatever you used...
Is it possible to use $whoami instead of different usernames ( "john" ) ?
$ whoami
marens

No, because the tricky point about all this is that the action is being triggered by a script being run by root, but the final action has to be run by a user. 'whoami' would return 'root', and root would have no idea about which user was wanted to run the conky. It has to be hard-coded into the script.

johnraff · 2025-07-07 06:59:18

sleekmason wrote:

Works well. Nice. Added bl-run-user to /usr/local/bin for ease of future use.

Hi @sleekmason, great to see you back! I heard you weren't well - are you at least well on the way to recovery now?

The precursor of bl-run-user was bl-run-broadcast which ended up being part of the apt update checker which you contributed a lot of work to, in particular the bl-apt-update-check script.

b-r-broadcast runs the same command for all currently logged-in users, while b-r-user for only the specific user specified in the command line.

In fact since the two scripts are very similar, I might roll them together by adding a -u <username> option to bl-run-broadcast to make it behave like bl-run-user.

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