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sokuban

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Registered: 2006-11-11

Posts: 412

Conky can't run since upgrade to Plasma 5

I just upgraded to KDE Plasma 5. For some reason I can't seem to run conky anymore and I'm not sure why.

$ conky
Conky: desktop window (2200011) is subwindow of root window (ab)
Conky: window type - override
Conky: drawing to created window (0x3e00001)
Conky: drawing to double buffer
X Error of failed request:  BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes)
  Major opcode of failed request:  2 (X_ChangeWindowAttributes)
  Serial number of failed request:  188
  Current serial number in output stream:  189

Back in KDE4 I'm pretty sure I still used the KDE desktop manager, but I had to use feh to put the same wallpaper on the root background so that conky wouldn't be black.

If this is a problem with Plasma 5's desktop manager, I honestly don't mind just stopping using it and just using a root background. I'm having trouble figuring out how to do this as Plasma 5 is still pretty new and there isn't much information on it. Of course if it's possible I'd like conky working with Plasma 5's desktop manager.

Thanks.

smirky

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From: Bulgaria

Registered: 2013-02-23

Posts: 277

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Re: Conky can't run since upgrade to Plasma 5

Yep, I have the same issues, though I have a workaround for my conky, but I lose some functionality like stickiness (override) and I can drag it around the desktop. Here's what I use today:

own_window yes
own_window_type normal
own_window_argb_visual yes
own_window_argb_value 0
own_window_transparent yes
own_window_hints undecorated,below,sticky,skip_taskbar,skip_pager

Last edited by smirky (2015-02-06 11:16:55)

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