Conky weirdness in Gnome

turvyc · 2011-02-08 04:10:34

Hi all, first post here . . . just made the switch from Ubuntu 10.04 to Arch, and so far I'm loving it. All the major wrinkles have been ironed out, and I'm just trying to clear up some warts now.

So I'm running Conky as a transparent window on my desktop, but it's not doing too well. First of all, despite having a refresh rate of 1 second in my .conkyrc, it only refreshes every 3-4 seconds.

Second, when I move another window over Conky, then move it away, The part of Conky that had been covered is gone until the next refresh, usually 2-3 seconds. The background image is still there, just not Conky's text.

And everything worked perfectly under Ubuntu (also Gnome) . . . same .conkyrc, same everything.

Thanks folks!

Stebalien · 2011-02-08 04:51:45

Can you post your conkyrc.

turvyc · 2011-02-08 04:55:11

    background yes
    use_xft yes
    xftfont Inconsolata:size=10
    xftalpha 0.1
    update_interval 1.0
    total_run_times 0


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

    minimum_size 250 5
    maximum_width 250


    draw_shades no
    draw_outline no
    draw_borders no
    draw_graph_borders no

    default_color gray
    default_shade_color red
    default_outline_color green

    ### Colors ###

    # Orange (title text)
    color0 B3601A

    # Bluish (headers)
    color1 385779
    
    # Dim Gray
    color2 696969

    alignment top_right
    gap_x 6
    gap_y 4

    no_buffers no
    uppercase no
    cpu_avg_samples 2
    net_avg_samples 1
    override_utf8_locale yes
    use_spacer right
    text_buffer_size 256


TEXT
# Print header
${font Inconsolata:bold:size=14}${color0}${alignr}colin@${nodename}${font}
${color1}${hr 1}
${color2}${alignr}$sysname $kernel $machine ${fs_type}
${alignr}Intel Pentium ${freq_g cpu0}Ghz
${alignr}Uptime: ${uptime}

${color1}${font openlogos:size=40}${alignr} t${font}${voffset 15}
#
# Now Playing Information

#${font size=14}${color2}${execp conkyRhythmbox -t /home/colin/.conkyRhythmbox.template}
${font size=14}${color2}${alignr}${exec conkyRhythmbox --datatype=TI --nounknownoutput --maxlength=27}
${font size=14}${color2}${alignr}${exec conkyRhythmbox --datatype=AR --nounknownoutput --maxlength=27}

${font size=14}${color2}${alignr}${exec conkyRhythmbox --datatype=AL --nounknownoutput --maxlength=27}
${font size=14}${color2}${alignr}${exec conkyRhythmbox --datatype=YR --nounknownoutput --maxlength=27}

${font size=14}${color2}${alignr}${exec conkyRhythmbox --datatype=PT --nounknownoutput --maxlength=27} ${exec conkyRhythmbox --datatype=LE --nounknownoutput --maxlength=27}
${voffset 15}
# Battery Information -- Only displayed if battery is not full.
${if_match $battery_percent != 100}${font Inconsolata:bold:size=10}${color1}${alignr}battery ${color DarkSlateGray}
${font}${color DimGray}${battery_percent}% $alignr${battery_time}
${battery_bar}${endif}${if_match $battery_percent == 100}${voffset 30}${endif}
# If the battery is full, we have to have a different voffset.

# Network Information
${font Inconsolata:bold:size=10}${color1}${alignr}network activity 
$font${color2}${if_up wlan0}Up: ${upspeed wlan0}${alignr}Down: ${downspeed wlan0}${else}Up: ${upspeed eth0}${alignr}Down: ${downspeed eth0}${endif}

# Processor Information
${font Inconsolata:bold:size=10}${color1}${alignr}processor usage 
$font${color2}CPU ${cpu cpu1}%  ${cpubar cpu1}
${top name 1}${alignr}${top cpu 1} %
${top name 2}${alignr}${top cpu 2} %
${top name 3}${alignr}${top cpu 3} %
${top name 4}${alignr}${top cpu 4} %

# RAM Information
${font Inconsolata:bold:size=10}${color1}${alignr}ram usage 
$font${color2}RAM $mem / $memmax ${alignr}$memperc%
$membar
${top_mem name 1}${alignr}${top mem 1} %
${top_mem name 2}${alignr}${top mem 2} %
${top_mem name 3}${alignr}${top mem 3} %
${top_mem name 4}${alignr}${top mem 4} %
    
# Available Memory
${font Inconsolata:bold:size=10}${color1}${alignr}physical memory 
${font}${color2}${fs_free /home} free${alignr}${fs_used_perc /home}% full
${fs_bar /home}

# END FILE

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#1 2011-02-08 04:10:34

Conky weirdness in Gnome

#2 2011-02-08 04:51:45

Re: Conky weirdness in Gnome

#3 2011-02-08 04:55:11

Re: Conky weirdness in Gnome

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