I found recently that Conky can display images, so wanted to try this.
The line in my conky file is as follows:
${image /home/scott/Desktop/soho/soho-eit284.jpg}
I've double-checked the path is correct and is a valid JPG. Instead of the literal path, I also tried ~/Desktop... and $HOME/Desktop.. as I've seen posts on here that show that as working code.
Any way I try, I simply get this on-screen:
${image}
instead of the image. Conky --version reports:
conky 1.10.6 compiled Thu Sep 14 05:41:24 UTC 2017 for Linux 4.4.0-93-generic x86_64
I'm using Xubuntu 17.10 Kernel 4.13.11-041311-generic
On some posts I've read, people mention compiling their own Conky to add a specific feature, is that is what is required? If so, any tutorial or step-by-step instructions on how to do that?
Thanks!
UPDATE: Nearly 2 weeks and 25 views, no replies. Do I win a prize if no one can answer? :-) I'm new here, have I explained what the problem is properly and shown what I've done so far to figure out what's wrong? Is my question not even worth one up-vote?
I do get a prize: Stackoverflow Tumbleweed award! Well, that's something I guess.
UPDATE2: Not a solution, but a workaround. Wrote my own image displayer using Python+PyQt to run along-side Conky :-)
https://pastebin.com/mxGat789
I was having the same issue; installing the conky-all package got it working.
(I know this is an old question; just posting the fix since it's the first search result.)