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DeletedUser210719

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[SOLVED] Trouble Making Conky Bottom Panel

I'm trying to create a bottom panel with conky that will replace LXDE's panel.  Right now I have everything set up adequately except for having the conky panel appear on the bottom.  The conky manpage mentions the panel setup under own_window_type, and says that it follows the lead of the alignment variable, so I figured setting the alignment before setting own_window_type may fix the issue, but I haven't had any such luck.

.conkyrc

#WINDOW OPTIONS
double_buffer yes
own_window yes
own_window_transparent no
alignment bottom_left
own_window_type panel
own_window_hints undecorate,sticky,skip_taskbar,skip_pager 

#POSITION
#gap_x 0
#gap_y 0

#BORDERS
draw_borders no

#SHADES
draw_shades no

#BEHAVIOR
update_interval 1

#COLOR
own_window_colour 000000
default_color 1793D1
color1 FFFFFF

#FONT
use_xft yes
uppercase yes
use_spacer left
pad_percents 3
xftfont Anonymous Pro:pixelsize=11

# Expands to the length of screen ()
minimum_size 1600
maximum_width 1600

TEXT
 ${color}CPU:${color1} ${cpu}%  ${cpubar 6,40}  //  ${color}MEM:${color1} $mem/$memmax  ${membar 6,40}\
${alignr}${color}${time %B %d}${color1} |${time %_I:%M %p}

I apologize if this is the wrong place to be posting in about conky assistance, but this section of the forum has helped me a ton in getting familiar with Arch, so its my safe guess for now.  Any direction on asking elsewhere would be equally appreciated.

Last edited by DeletedUser210719 (2012-06-15 15:15:46)

Terminator

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Registered: 2012-05-07

Posts: 265

Re: [SOLVED] Trouble Making Conky Bottom Panel

One would think that the position of conky was determined by the variables below '#POSITION' .

Last edited by Terminator (2012-06-15 14:45:12)

2ManyDogs

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Registered: 2012-01-15

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Re: [SOLVED] Trouble Making Conky Bottom Panel

("non working" solution deleted)

Last edited by 2ManyDogs (2012-06-15 15:19:55)

DeletedUser210719

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Re: [SOLVED] Trouble Making Conky Bottom Panel

Sorry, that section would be more aptly-named #Margin, it doesn't handle anything other than window margins. And i tried commenting those out as well, with no luck.

spark666

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Registered: 2011-05-23

Posts: 137

Re: [SOLVED] Trouble Making Conky Bottom Panel

Try whit obconf, you have there a setting that say where the panel should be positioned (Dock section) , try to set from there to be on the bottom

Last edited by spark666 (2012-06-15 15:11:14)

DeletedUser210719

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Re: [SOLVED] Trouble Making Conky Bottom Panel

own_window_type must be panel, otherwise it doesn't behave like a panel.  And adding "above" to the hints instead of "below" doesn't fix it.

Maybe the other options have some effect.  When i tried setting "own_window" to "no", conky would disregard my transparency option and just make it transparent.

DeletedUser210719

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Registered: 2012-04-20

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Re: [SOLVED] Trouble Making Conky Bottom Panel

...well, I'll be damned...spark666's solution worked!!

Great thinking! I would've never thought of that!

I didn't see anywhere in the conky manpage detailing conky as a dockapp.

Anyway, thanks!

spark666

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Registered: 2011-05-23

Posts: 137

Re: [SOLVED] Trouble Making Conky Bottom Panel

You welcome,and dont forget to mark the topic as "Solved"

Last edited by spark666 (2012-06-15 15:15:58)