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cosmo7

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Registered: 2025-02-02

Posts: 3

[SOLVED] Conky issues and artifacting.

Hello there,
I am a pretty new arch user, and I recently wanted to setup conky but i've been facing multiple issues like artifacting.

Firstly my question is, if conky is at all supported on Wayland? (I'm running KDE plasma, Wayland)

My main issue is that I'm fiddling with 

 own_window_type = 'desktop' 

but none of the options seem to do the job.
Setting it to 'Desktop' mode does display conky on desktop but it artifacts with everything previously displayed on the screen and 'stacks on itself'.
Setting it to 'normal' just makes it disappear.
Setting to 'Override/panel/dock' makes it stay permanently on screen. I tried using settings>window rules to force it down  and set own_window_hints parameters as : 'undecorated,below,sticky,skip_taskbar,skip_pager' but it doesn't work either.
I've even tried toggling

argb_visuals,own_window_transparent parameters, setting out_to_x = false and out_to_wayland = true

but no luck.

I'm attaching my conky config and the image of artifacting-
conky_config
conky_artifacts

PS: Had copied from Titus' conky config. I'm also running the correct config file by using conky -c [path to my config]
PS2: There are no artifacts while in override/panel/dock mode.

Last edited by cosmo7 (2025-02-02 16:18:10)

NoSavvy

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From: Dorchester, Dorset, UK

Registered: 2013-01-23

Posts: 125

Re: [SOLVED] Conky issues and artifacting.

Try changing "own_window_argb_value = 100"  to 200. Works here.

Last edited by NoSavvy (2025-02-02 13:23:59)

cosmo7

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Registered: 2025-02-02

Posts: 3

Re: [SOLVED] Conky issues and artifacting.

Try changing "own_window_argb_value = 100"  to 200. Woks here.

Thanks for the reply,
After setting

own_window_transparent = true

to false and then turning up the argb_value 200 stops the artifacting (infact it artifacts for half a second if i switch from a window to desktop and then clears up), but this won't be ideal since now I have a black widget covering a part of my screen, I would prefer it to be translucent.

One thing to note that, transparency works fine in override/panel/dock mode but glitches in desktop mode.
and clicking anywhere on the desktop closes/hides conky.

NoSavvy

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From: Dorchester, Dorset, UK

Registered: 2013-01-23

Posts: 125

Re: [SOLVED] Conky issues and artifacting.

There's another post about conky on here. Have a search and try my posted conky. It is a bit of trial and error.

cosmo7

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Registered: 2025-02-02

Posts: 3

Re: [SOLVED] Conky issues and artifacting.

There's another post about conky on here. Have a search and try my posted conky. It is a bit of trial and error.

SOLVED!-
Thanks Nosavvy, I took inspiration from your previous post about it being working in a 'non-config' directory and it worked.
I started from scratch again (using a default config file made by Titus tech) and saved it in another folder within the .conky folder. And then used conky-manager2 to load it and it worked!
The desktop mode still artifacts though but normal mode works.

Thanks.