Conky got a black background under gnome 3.8

xzy3186 · 2013-04-11 08:50:08

Hi,

After upgrading to gnome 3.8, the background of my conky became black. I tried several options in conkyrc without success.

Both extra/conky and aur/conky-lua had been tried but none of them worked for me.
I heard there is aur package called conky-nvidia which can solve the problem for Nvidia user but I am running a intel video card with both SNA and UXA mode been tested.

Is there anybody experiencing the same bug or knowing the workaround?

Best regards,
Z. Xu

notthesun · 2013-04-21 12:36:05

try this in your conkyrc

own_window yes
own_window_type normal
own_window_argb_visual yes
own_window_argb_value 255
own_window_transparent yes
own_window_hints undecorated,below,sticky,skip_taskbar,skip_pager

xzy3186 · 2013-04-22 00:51:24

Thanks very much for the reply.

I've already tried those two options in my conkyrc

notthesun wrote:

own_window_argb_visual yes
own_window_argb_value 255

Indeed it changed the background of my conky into transparent. The problem was that the image loaded in conky became transparent as well, which was not so good as the conky looked extremely wired under bright wallpaper.

kabbalah · 2013-04-22 01:59:31

Thank you, worked very good.

notthesun · 2013-04-22 07:27:22

xzy3186 wrote:

Indeed it changed the background of my conky into transparent. The problem was that the image loaded in conky became transparent as well, which was not so good as the conky looked extremely wired under bright wallpaper.

please send me your image background so i try to fit it perfectly...

xzy3186 · 2013-04-22 08:53:42

@notthesun:

Thank you very much for you attention. Here is the link of the image:

https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B9umbwU … sp=sharing

It served as the background of my conky, which should be something like this:

http://browse.deviantart.com/art/Conky- … -213418718

notthesun · 2013-04-22 11:07:05

I've tried many option but no one works for your problem...at this time you can only set a dark background through argb value like this

own_window_argb_visual yes
own_window_argb_value 255 <--- decrase this to have dark background
own_window_transparent no

xzy3186 · 2013-04-23 05:17:56

@notthesun:
Actually I did not see any change when modifying this number...

notthesun wrote:

own_window_argb_value 255 <--- decrase this to have dark background

Anyway, thank you for your attention to this thread. I think this is a bug relating to the desktop rendering for conky. Hope it will fix by itself later some time.

fantab · 2013-04-23 10:49:13

notthesun wrote:

try this in your conkyrc
own_window yes
own_window_type normal
own_window_argb_visual yes
own_window_argb_value 255
own_window_transparent yes
own_window_hints undecorated,below,sticky,skip_taskbar,skip_pager

Thanks notthesun, your workaround with 'argb' help me fix my conky as well on gnome 3.8.

Nebulosa · 2013-04-23 20:14:56

For me it not helps.
I using this - http://freeazy.deviantart.com/art/Conky … -186251285

Any ideas?

notthesun · 2013-04-24 16:04:39

xzy3186 wrote:

@notthesun:
Actually I did not see any change when modifying this number...
notthesun wrote:
own_window_argb_value 255 <--- decrase this to have dark background
Anyway, thank you for your attention to this thread. I think this is a bug relating to the desktop rendering for conky. Hope it will fix by itself later some time.

Maybe you have forgotten to set no in own_window_transparent option....

@Nebulosa post your conkyrc so i can help you...ever if i can!!

thepasto · 2013-04-24 17:00:56

the issue is described here Each image is displayed with the wrong alpha layer.

Nebulosa · 2013-04-24 19:20:46

notthesun wrote:

@Nebulosa post your conkyrc so i can help you...ever if i can!!

Already did - this conkyrc

notthesun · 2013-04-25 08:56:52

Nebulosa wrote:

Already did - this conkyrc

if you want to use this conky you have to remove the image background and the icons then set this option in your conkyrc

own_window yes
own_window_type normal
own_window_argb_visual yes
own_window_argb_value 255
own_window_transparent no
own_window_hints undecorated,below,sticky,skip_taskbar,skip_pager

xzy3186 · 2013-04-28 03:35:51

notthesun wrote:

Maybe you have forgotten to set no in own_window_transparent option....

You are right. I always set it to yes. Okey, now I can see the change. Thank you very much.

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#1 2013-04-11 08:50:08

Conky got a black background under gnome 3.8

#2 2013-04-21 12:36:05

Re: Conky got a black background under gnome 3.8

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Re: Conky got a black background under gnome 3.8

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