enlightenment and conky

virusso80 · 2009-03-17 00:10:12

Hi all,
I'm strating to use e17...seems to be awesome!

I configured everything but conky! It was working perfectly on fluxbox but in e17 i got an error:

Conky: desktop window (a00007) is subwindow of root window (13b)
Conky: window type - override
Conky: drawing to created window (0x2e00001)
X Error of failed request:  BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes)
  Major opcode of failed request:  1 (X_CreateWindow)
  Serial number of failed request:  285
  Current serial number in output stream:  288

What does it mean?

Thanks in advance!

skottish · 2009-03-17 00:15:56

E17 doesn't use the root window for it's background, it's actually an EDJE file. Conky simply can't draw on it. There are solutions if you search around.

virusso80 · 2009-03-17 00:22:55

what could I use to perform the same work conky does?

skottish · 2009-03-17 00:24:33

You can use conky, but just not how you're use to doing it. I think that the solution that most people are using is a transparent, borderless terminal.

sand_man · 2009-03-17 00:38:49

Can't you just use "own_window" ?

virusso80 · 2009-03-17 00:47:48

yes...but i'm not able to see the wallpaper in the background! I'm seeing the kdm background (kdm is the default login manager) It looks very bad!

virusso80 · 2009-03-17 00:51:42

I'm trying to modify a copy of the default file in /etc/xdg/conky/conky.conf...Let see if I can...
basically it creates a window for conky...

virusso80 · 2009-03-17 01:34:27

ok, using the default file...looks better, but i don't know how to use conky inside a terminal (transparent, borderless terminal). I know there are terminals that can be transparent and bordless, but How to execute conky inside them? Maybe it's a stupid question and I've not been able to find anything useful. I'll appreciate your suggestion.

Thanks

skottish · 2009-03-17 02:04:48

I'm probably getting things screwed up here. It's been about 2.5 years since I've even thought about conky and E17. Maybe ignoring what I said about the terminal will save you some headaches.

One thing that you can do is use something like feh to set the root window the same as your E17 background image. Then if you use own_window the background will be correct.

harden@gsu.edu · 2011-03-24 13:37:18

Hi Folks,

I am running conky 1.8.1 on both e17 (16.999.57375) and KDE 4.5.11 on different boxes each with true transparency. I.e.; you don't need Esetroot, feh, etc. To make conk truely transparent you need a composite running and have the following in .conkyrc

own_window yes
# ARGB can be used for real transparency, note that a composite manager is required for real transparency
own_window_argb_visual true
# Set the transparency alpha value from 0 to 255
own_window_argb_value 0
own_window_type desktop

See http://conky.sourceforge.net/config_settings.html

Good luck,
Don

my full .conkyrc
==============================

# http://conky.sourceforge.net/
color1 F9F966
color2 FF7F50
color3 87CEFF
color4 7FFF00
color5 87CEFA
default_color Chartreuse
default_outline_color Dark Cyan
default_shade_color Dark Cyan
alignment bottom_left
background yes
border_width 1
cpu_avg_samples 2
double_buffer yes
draw_borders no
draw_graph_borders yes
draw_outline no
draw_shades no
gap_x 25
gap_y 15 
minimum_size 330 10
maximum_width 330
max_specials 512
max_user_text 65536
max_port_monitor_connections 64
net_avg_samples 2
no_buffers yes
out_to_console no
own_window yes
# ARGB can be used for real transparency, note that a composite manager is required for real transparency
own_window_argb_visual true
# Set the transparency alpha value from 0 to 255
own_window_argb_value 0
own_window_type desktop
own_window_hints undecorated,below,sticky,skip_taskbar,skip_pager
stippled_borders 2
update_interval 2
uppercase no
use_spacer right
use_xft yes
xftalpha 0.8
xftfont  Bitstream Vera Sans Mono:size=9

TEXT
$color1$nodename     ${alignc}$sysname $kernel ${alignr}$color${time %l:%M:%p}
${color1}Uptime:$color $uptime ${color1} Load:$color $loadavg

${color1}CPU0:$color ${cpu cpu0}% ${cpubar cpu0 5,85}${alignr 10}${color2}${hwmon 0 temp 1}$alignr${color1}${cpugraph cpu0 32,120 104E8B FF7F50 -t}
${color1}CPU1:$color ${cpu cpu1}% ${cpubar cpu1 5,85}${alignr 10}${color2}${hwmon 2 temp 1}$alignr${color1}${cpugraph cpu1 32,120 104E8B FF7F50 -t}
${color1}CPU2:$color ${cpu cpu2}% ${cpubar cpu2 5,85}${alignr 10}${color2}${hwmon 3 temp 1}$alignr${color1}${cpugraph cpu2 32,120 104E8B FF7F50 -t}
${color1}CPU3:$color ${cpu cpu3}% ${cpubar cpu3 5,85}${alignr 10}${color2}${hwmon 1 temp 1}$alignr${color1}${cpugraph cpu3 32,120 104E8B FF7F50 -t}
${color1}Fan 1: ${color2}${hwmon 4 fan 1} RPM         ${color1}Fan 4: ${color2}${hwmon 4 fan 4} RPM

${color1}RAM Usage:$color2 $mem/$memmax - $memperc% $membar
${color1}Swap Usage:$color3 $swap/$swapmax - $swapperc% ${swapbar}
${color1}Entropy:$color ${entropy_avail}/${entropy_poolsize} ${entropy_bar}

${color1}Net Down:$color ${downspeed bond0} k/s      ${color1}Net Up:$color ${upspeed bond0} k/s
${color1}${downspeedgraph bond0 32,155 104E8B FF7F50 -t} $alignr${color1}${upspeedgraph bond0 32,155 104E8B FF7F50 -t}

${color1}Disk I/O: $color${diskio} $alignr${color1}${diskiograph 32,155 104E8B FF7F50 -t 750}
${color2}/         ${fs_used /}/ ${fs_size /}${alignr}${fs_bar 5,120 /}
${color1}/boot     ${fs_used /boot}/ ${fs_size /boot}${alignr}${fs_bar 5,120 /boot}
${color3}/Z        ${fs_used /Z}/ ${fs_size /Z}${alignr}${fs_bar 5,120 /Z}
${color}/eSATA/1  ${fs_used /eSATA/1}/ ${fs_size /eSATA/1}${alignr}${fs_bar 5,120 /eSATA/1}

${color1}Top Processes:     PID    CPU%   MEM%
$color ${top name 1} ${top pid 1} ${top cpu 1} ${top mem 1}
$color ${top name 2} ${top pid 2} ${top cpu 2} ${top mem 2}
$color ${top name 3} ${top pid 3} ${top cpu 3} ${top mem 3}
$color ${top name 4} ${top pid 4} ${top cpu 4} ${top mem 4}
$color ${top name 3} ${top pid 5} ${top cpu 5} ${top mem 5}

# Check for new email
${color1}harden@gsu.edu:$color     ${texeci 120  imapfilter -c /home/don/.imapfilter/harden.lua | cut -d\  -f5,5} unseen

# Last few syslog messages
${execi 30 sudo  /Z/don/bin/conky_messg}

DeletedUser210616 · 2011-04-23 04:30:29

woot, thanx!

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#1 2009-03-17 00:10:12

enlightenment and conky

#2 2009-03-17 00:15:56

Re: enlightenment and conky

#3 2009-03-17 00:22:55

Re: enlightenment and conky

#4 2009-03-17 00:24:33

Re: enlightenment and conky

#5 2009-03-17 00:38:49

Re: enlightenment and conky

#6 2009-03-17 00:47:48

Re: enlightenment and conky

#7 2009-03-17 00:51:42

Re: enlightenment and conky

#8 2009-03-17 01:34:27

Re: enlightenment and conky

#9 2009-03-17 02:04:48

Re: enlightenment and conky

#10 2011-03-24 13:37:18

Re: enlightenment and conky

#11 2011-04-23 04:30:29

Re: enlightenment and conky

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