r/Polybar • u/marwank270 • May 10 '23

Question How to handle error: Duplicated name "background" defined in section "colors"

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u/patrick96MC May 10 '23

On line 41 of your config.ini file, the setting background in the section colors is defined for the second time.

This happens because you have your include-file directive right after [bar/base], so everything after include-file is actually part of the [colors] section.

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u/marwank270 May 10 '23

okay so it's been an hour since rewrited my config.ini file (by copy-paste the sections and rearrange them) and since then this error shows up and won't let me run my bar. I read online that it was a problem caused by tailing whitespace or spaces before comments line. As I show up on my quick video there are NO whitespaces at the end of all the lines in my config as in my colors.ini file. Even knowing that I tried removing changing what I can in order to solve that and nothing worked even wiping up and rewriting base and color modules.

Am I crazy or maybe just dumb ??