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#1 2010-09-04 16:11:13

matt101
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Help with running multiple instances of conky in openbox.

A few days ago I installed openbox after uninstalling KDE- due to it being just to heavy on my old laptop. I have everything setup now apart from conky, which is actually setup (I have it customized it to my liking). But if i try to run all my conky's at startup- they either flicker alot if i have "own_window" set to "no". This enables me to click the desktop without the openbox menu being hidden under a  conky. But if i set it to "yes" it fixes the flickering issue, but then i cannot click on the desktop where the conky's are. And due to having a small screen, when opening the openbox menu it gets hidden by a conky window. I have searched the forums but i cannot seem to find an answer to this. If you know how to fix this please respond as quickly as possible...

Thanks...

Also i have another question, i have installed a gtk theme for my setup and all icons have changed. But because by default you don't have media folders eg. Documents, Pictures. I had to create them, so they have stayed as the default gtk theme icon for a folder. How would i go about making them use the documents icon etc.

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#2 2010-09-04 16:18:44

skunktrader
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Re: Help with running multiple instances of conky in openbox.

With "own_window" set to "no", did you try setting "double_buffer" to "yes" to reduce the flickering?

With "own_window" set to "yes", did you try setting "own_window_hints" to "undecorate,sticky,skip_taskbar,skip_pager,below" to see if your menu displays correctly?

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#3 2010-09-04 16:28:22

matt101
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Re: Help with running multiple instances of conky in openbox.

I don't want to set own_window to yes unless there is a workaround for displaying the openbox menu over the top of conky when own_window is set to yes. Also double_buffer is already set to yes with the own_window set to no.

EDIT: I can set own_window to no and there will be no flickering and i can click on the conky and it will bring up my openbox menu. But this only works with one instance of conky. If i run a second instance of conky it starts flickering and the amount of flickering increases the more instances of conky i'm running.

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#4 2010-09-04 19:41:26

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Re: Help with running multiple instances of conky in openbox.

Tried "own_window_type override" ?


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#5 2010-09-04 19:43:42

matt101
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Re: Help with running multiple instances of conky in openbox.

NSB-fr wrote:

Tried "own_window_type override" ?

Yup

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#6 2010-09-04 20:13:31

NSB-fr
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Re: Help with running multiple instances of conky in openbox.

Any luck with this ?

own_window yes
own_window_type normal
own_window_hints undecorated,below,sticky,skip_taskbar,skip_pager

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#7 2010-09-04 20:19:30

matt101
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Re: Help with running multiple instances of conky in openbox.

EDIT: I thought one of your suggestions had worked but it hasn't so more suggestions would be appreciated.
Thanks.

Last edited by matt101 (2010-09-04 20:33:19)

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#8 2010-09-05 09:43:52

quigybo
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Re: Help with running multiple instances of conky in openbox.

I run two instances of conky in openbox and these settings work fine:

double_buffer yes
own_window yes
own_window_type override
own_window_hints below,undecorated

Occasionally I see flickering, but that is because conky tries to set itself wider than the screen (I have one across the top of the screen, and sometimes it gets too wide due to the info being displayed).

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#9 2010-09-05 09:48:55

matt101
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Re: Help with running multiple instances of conky in openbox.

quigybo wrote:

I run two instances of conky in openbox and these settings work fine:

double_buffer yes
own_window yes
own_window_type override
own_window_hints below,undecorated

Occasionally I see flickering, but that is because conky tries to set itself wider than the screen (I have one across the top of the screen, and sometimes it gets too wide due to the info being displayed).

Can you bring up your openbox menu though over the top of those conkys?

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#10 2010-09-05 12:24:31

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Re: Help with running multiple instances of conky in openbox.

quigybo wrote:

I run two instances of conky in openbox and these settings work fine:

double_buffer yes
own_window yes
own_window_type override
own_window_hints below,undecorated

Occasionally I see flickering, but that is because conky tries to set itself wider than the screen (I have one across the top of the screen, and sometimes it gets too wide due to the info being displayed).

You can fix that by setting the value of "maximum_width" to the width of your screen

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#11 2010-09-05 13:42:12

quigybo
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Re: Help with running multiple instances of conky in openbox.

matt101 wrote:

Can you bring up your openbox menu though over the top of those conkys?

I certainly can smile.

skunktrader wrote:

You can fix that by setting the value of "maximum_width" to the width of your screen

Perfect, thanks.

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