[Bug]: v1.20_2 conky: can't parse hex color 'white' (5) about conky HOT 6 CLOSED

Duplicate of #1868

This is an Arch packaging bug: https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/packaging/packages/conky/-/issues/5

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Yes I read about it however haven't before gperf.
Anyway found workaround by put everywhere in .conkyrc hex codes instead names.
Thank you.

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I can confirm this. Not only 'white' but any color. The fix is to use hex codes.

Also, I would like to kindly ask the dev to make config a bit more uniform:

own_window_colour
default_outline_color

Make it either color or colour everywhere. Or make it interchangeable.

It distracts a lot, simply because putting color (or colour) everywhere doesn't work. You have to remember every option or consult the docs every time.

Thanks in advance.

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Anyway found workaround by put everywhere in .conkyrc hex codes instead names.

Or pacman -Sy gperf during build if you're building an older version from AUR. New builds will fail instead of producing warnings with -D at runtime and there's an option to revert to that behavior (in case someone isn't using color names) though build configuration.

Sorry for inconvenience with packaging 🫤. On a flip side, you can now easily add/change parsed colors in data/color-names.yml as their parsing is no longer hardcoded and uses a tiny bit faster algorithm.

Closing as duplicate of #1868.

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temporary solution to change color name to hex format
f.e.
${color #ecb939}BATTERY $color

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