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cyberius

Member

From: Germany

Registered: 2008-08-30

Posts: 97

Conky flickers / is "blinking" (using fglrx & compiz)

Hello!

I have the fglrx driver and use Compiz as WM.

Conky is flickering on nearly every refresh. What can I do?

I have "double_buffering" in conkyrc > doesn't help
I enabled Load "dbe" in xorg.conf > doesn't help

The only option that works is setting windows_type to "override" then it doesn't blink / flicker anymore (great!!), but it is on top of all windows (bad!).
I tried enabling Compiz WindowRules and adding class=Conky to "Below", but it doesn't change anything (its still above all windows).
Setting window_type to desktop makes my background dark.

So what can I else do?

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conlyrc

background yes
own_window yes
own_window_transparent yes
own_window_type normal
double_buffer yes
own_window_hints undecorated,below,sticky,skip_taskbar,skip_pager


draw_borders no
draw_shades no
draw_outline no
stippled_borders 0

gap_x 16
gap_y 6
alignment top_left
update_interval 3
default_color  gray
default_shade_color 000000

use_xft yes
xftfont nu
override_utf8_locale yes
use_spacer left
total_run_times 0

TEXT
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xorg.conf

Section "ServerLayout"
    Identifier     "aticonfig Layout"
    Screen      0  "aticonfig-Screen[0]-0" 0 0
EndSection

Section "Files"
EndSection

Section "Module"
    Load "dbe"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
    Identifier   "aticonfig-Monitor[0]-0"
    Option        "VendorName" "ATI Proprietary Driver"
    Option        "ModelName" "Generic Autodetecting Monitor"
    Option        "DPMS" "true"
EndSection

Section "Device"
    Identifier  "aticonfig-Device[0]-0"
    Driver      "fglrx"
    BusID       "PCI:2:0:0"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
    Identifier "aticonfig-Screen[0]-0"
    Device     "aticonfig-Device[0]-0"
    Monitor    "aticonfig-Monitor[0]-0"
    DefaultDepth     24
    SubSection "Display"
        Viewport   0 0
        Depth     24
    EndSubSection
EndSection

Last edited by cyberius (2010-07-08 08:18:54)

bearman51

Member

Registered: 2010-04-18

Posts: 14

Re: Conky flickers / is "blinking" (using fglrx & compiz)

Try setting own_window_type to override and adding on_bottom yes.

own_window_type override
on_bottom yes

cyberius

Member

From: Germany

Registered: 2008-08-30

Posts: 97

Re: Conky flickers / is "blinking" (using fglrx & compiz)

Thank you.

But it doesnt work for me, conky stays on top of everything with this..
Even the Compiz Window Rules Plugin doesnt change anything.

Strange ..

bearman51

Member

Registered: 2010-04-18

Posts: 14

Re: Conky flickers / is "blinking" (using fglrx & compiz)

I remember having some similar issues with compositing (although I use xcompmgr) try killing compiz, starting conky and then restarting compiz. I had to start all of my conky's before xcompmgr in my startup script.