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#1 2008-09-27 00:05:06

hemajang
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Registered: 2008-09-26
Posts: 3

Conky showing in pypanel...why?

Hello all,

Made the switch to Archlinux not too long ago, loving it. One thing that I can't figure out why tho is...

My conky is showing up in my pypanel, it shows up like this    " conky(hostname) ",
Couple things to note tho,

- It doesn't show up on startup
- Shows up only after my Terminal app (urxvt)  is opened and switch between non-root user and root (su -) and then exit terminal via "exit" command.

My dot-files are as follows:

.xinitrc

#!/bin/sh

#
# ~/.xinitrc
#
# Executed by startx (run your window manager from here)
#

exec openbox-session
# exec other WM's

/openbox/autostart.sh

. $GLOBALAUTOSTART

sh ~/.fehbg &
xcompmgr -cC -t-5 -l-5 -r4.2 -o.55 &

(sleep 2 && pypanel) &
(sleep 5 && conky) &

.conkyrc

background yes
use_xft yes
xftfont Arial:size=8
xftalpha 0.8
update_interval 3.0
alignment top_right

own_window yes
own_window_type desktop
own_window_transparent yes
#own_window_hints undecorated,sticky,skip_taskbar,skip_pager

double_buffer yes
short_units yes

draw_shades no
draw_outline no
draw_borders no

gap_x 10
gap_y 10
uppercase yes
no_buffers yes

TEXT
${font Arial:style=Bold:size=8}${color #555555}${nodename}: ${color # 777777}${kernel}.... and so on.

Everything still pretty much works, this is more of a nuisance than anything. Any help on this will be appreciated
Thx

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#2 2008-09-27 00:20:25

moljac024
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From: Serbia
Registered: 2008-01-29
Posts: 2,676

Re: Conky showing in pypanel...why?

Probably a bug in pypanel. Since it is unmaintained, it won't get fixed unless you do it yourself of course.
You can switch to another panel.

I know this sounds like crappy advice but that's the way it is.


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#3 2008-09-27 00:39:07

Xyne
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Registered: 2008-08-03
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Re: Conky showing in pypanel...why?

This shouldn't be a pypanel issue. I have the same setup (openbox, pypanel, conky, all initialized the same way) and conky just sits there happily integrated into my desktop without anything showing up in pypanel.

Here's what I have in my .conkyrc that you don't have in yours

background no
own_window_hints undecorated,below,sticky,skip_taskbar,skip_pager

Last edited by Xyne (2008-09-27 00:40:08)


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#4 2008-09-27 00:41:07

moljac024
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From: Serbia
Registered: 2008-01-29
Posts: 2,676

Re: Conky showing in pypanel...why?

Xyne wrote:

This shouldn't be a pypanel issue. I have the same setup (openbox, pypanel, conky, all initialized the same way) and conky just sits there happily integrated into my desktop without anything showing up in pypanel.

Here's what I have in my .conkyrc that you don't have in yours

background no
own_window_hints undecorated,below,sticky,skip_taskbar,skip_pager

I don't know if "background no" has any real effect, but the window hint to skip the taskbar is very likely what's keeping conky off my taskbar wink

The desktop type also has that hint. I've had trouble with conky and pypanel in the past.
Though I really don't remember anymore.
The sooner you realize life is better without a taskbar, the better wink


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