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RichSelian

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From: China

Registered: 2009-03-14

Posts: 43

[solved] Conky docking problem.

Sorry for my poor English. I hope you can understand what I say.

I want to make my conky stay at bottom like a panel. So I try this in my .conkyrc:

own_window yes
own_window_transparent no
own_window_type dock
alignment bottom_middle

But the problem is that after setting own_window_type to dock, alignment seems to invalid and conky always stay at top_left. Can anyone help?

Last edited by RichSelian (2009-08-20 00:50:16)

falomir

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Registered: 2009-02-15

Posts: 15

Re: [solved] Conky docking problem.

try
own_window_type desktop
and use gap_y to set margin

RichSelian

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From: China

Registered: 2009-03-14

Posts: 43

Re: [solved] Conky docking problem.

Thanks.
But I don't want it to be covered by other windows. I just want it to stay at bottom like fbpanel/pypanel or other panels.
So I just don't know, why can't these two commands work at the same time?

own_window_type dock
alignment bottom_middle

sHyLoCk

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Registered: 2009-06-19

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Re: [solved] Conky docking problem.

Well you can try using gap_x and gap_y

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RichSelian

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From: China

Registered: 2009-03-14

Posts: 43

Re: [solved] Conky docking problem.

gap_x and gap_y won't work if I set "own_window_type dock". Conky will always stay at top left.

RichSelian

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From: China

Registered: 2009-03-14

Posts: 43

Re: [solved] Conky docking problem.

In fact I've come out another idea. I set "own_window_type override" and change openbox's margins. now it acts "like" a panel.

LeoSolaris

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From: South Carolina

Registered: 2008-03-30

Posts: 354

Re: [solved] Conky docking problem.

own_window yes
own_window_transparent yes
own_window_type desktop
own_window_hints undecorate,above,sticky,skip_taskbar,skip_pager

The "above" in the own_windows_hints sets it above all other windows.

When you make conky a dock in OB, you have to configure OB's dock feature to put it where you want it. You likely had OB's dock in the rc.xml set to the top_left.

The margin shift idea should likely work the best IMO.

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RichSelian

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From: China

Registered: 2009-03-14

Posts: 43

Re: [solved] Conky docking problem.

You are so great! I haven't noticed that openbox has a "dock" option. Now it works perfectly after setting "own_window_type dock" in .conkyrc and   "<dock><position>Bottom</position>..." in "rc.xml".