Waybar fails to start (sometimes)

[keshto]

Sometimes fails to start with.

 ** (waybar:1124): ERROR **: 15:28:13.348: 
 unhandled exception (type std::exception) in signal handler:
 what: Type is not convertible to string

[OctopusET]

#1381 (comment)

This might be related. I got same error message.

[keshto]

No it was the `{calendar}` string in the clock widget format.

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[krisman]

I'm also observing this on v0.9.9 (debian package 0.9.9-1). Removing the '{calendar}' reference in tootip-format fixes it for me too.

Any idea what this {calendar} formatting is for? I only found a few references to it on the wiki but it is still to clear to me.

[droc12345]

"< big > {:%Y %B} < /big >\n < tt > < small > {calendar} < /small >< /tt >" - spaces added to display properly
Bigger font, year and month,
tt monospace font
{calendar} is current month, done with smaller font
Pango markup (if I remember right)

I personally haven't had problems with the calendar line, but here are some things that might affect using it
gtk+ version (should use gtk3 not 4)
libfmt version
gtk-layer-shell version
and of course, xwayland, wayland and protocols versions.

Edit to add: what the cal looks like https://ibb.co/CWf7Qvb

[jonmast]

I had a similar issue, replacing %l with %I in my time format fixed it for me (both 12hr format, %I is zero padded).