[solved]Openbox margins and Conky

czar · 2008-06-02 02:08:30

I have a 1 line conky that i want to remain at the top of my screen at all times. I set up a margin in openbox to leave enough pixels at the top to comfortably fit the conky. The problem is that when i first boot to my desktop conky is placed below the margin. If i restart X however conky is right where i want it in the margin. Does anyone know how to put conky in the right place the first time?

.conkyrc is setup for top_left placement and theres only a few pixels on the y axis from the top.
I call conky from .xinitrc before openbox

I can't think of any other relevant info but let me know!

Last edited by czar (2008-06-04 01:18:09)

Redroar · 2008-06-02 04:20:13

Replace conky & in .xinitrc with (sleep 3 && conky) &. I think this happens if Conky starts before Openbox, but I am not completely sure.

czar · 2008-06-02 15:28:57

I think that if i do that it will still execute conky before openbox (since sleeping would stop the entire .xinitrc not just conky i think, i'll check) but i'll use your idea and try to execute conky from openbox autostart instead. Thanks for the input

.:B:. · 2008-06-02 15:33:50

The function created with the brackets, combined with the ampersand, puts the whole sequence in the background, so .xinitrc will not stop being parsed for that whole time.

Don't worry, the guy knows what he's talking about...

moljac024 · 2008-06-02 16:38:57

Do you have this line in your .conkyrc

own_window_type desktop

?

czar · 2008-06-02 17:53:24

B wrote:

The function created with the brackets, combined with the ampersand, puts the whole sequence in the background, so .xinitrc will not stop being parsed for that whole time.
Don't worry, the guy knows what he's talking about...

thanks for clearing that up. I read the parenthesis as English not as code. sorry for doubting you redroar!

And moljac, i'll check that out when i get home, thanks.

Last edited by czar (2008-06-02 17:54:29)

Redroar · 2008-06-02 20:48:11

I should have put it in a

(sleep 3 && conky) &

so it could've been read more easily. I see how the parentheses were seen as a way of separating it from the sentence, and not as the code itself.

moljac024 · 2008-06-02 22:55:43

If you don't set conky's window type to be of "desktop", openbox will treat it as any other application, hence forbidding it to cross your margins.

Redroar · 2008-06-03 01:38:08

That's assuming it has it's own window, of course. I ran mine without a window for a while, but it seems better behaved with the desktop type window.

I'm just thinking that since it works when he restarts X, it's just some weird thing with the loading order.

czar · 2008-06-04 01:17:47

It was the own_window_type desktop. Thanks for helpin me out guys. It is peculiar that its fixed by restarting X tho.

Misfit138 · 2008-06-04 01:38:14

Great thread.
A lot of brainpower condensed into a short space...I like that!

hookdump · 2009-05-29 07:49:20

moljac024 wrote:

Do you have this line in your .conkyrc
own_window_type desktop
?

EXCELLENT!!! Thank you so much, I had a similar problem, and that worked perfectly

THANKS!

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[solved]Openbox margins and Conky

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