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Mew

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Registered: 2014-07-26

Posts: 4

[SOLVED] Conky window misplaced

Hello Internet,

I'm trying to use conky to make my desktop cooler, but the window is never placed where it is supposed to be:
http://abload.de/img/2014-07-30-142845_192gou5x.png
The window is placed in the top-left corner, and there is only a black box where it was supposet to be placed

Is there anything I can do?

.conkyrc:

# Conky settings #
background yes
update_interval 1
double_buffer yes
no_buffers yes
imlib_cache_size 10

# Window specifications #
gap_x 100
gap_y 70
minimum_size 268 620
maximum_width 268
own_window yes
own_window_type normal  # other options are: override/dock/desktop/panel
own_window_transparent yes
own_window_hints undecorate,sticky,skip_taskbar,skip_pager,below
border_inner_margin 0
border_outer_margin 0
#alignment middle_middle
#own_window_argb_visual yes
#own_window_argb_value 0

# Graphics settings #
draw_shades no
default_shade_color AAAAAA
draw_outline no
default_outline_color AAAAAA
draw_borders no
draw_graph_borders no
default_graph_size 26 80
show_graph_scale no
show_graph_range no

# Text settings #
use_xft yes
xftalpha 0
xftfont Droid Sans:size=8
text_buffer_size 256
override_utf8_locale yes

# Useful shortenings #
short_units yes
pad_percents 2
top_name_width 7

# Color scheme #
default_color FFFFFF
color1 FFFFFF
color2 FFFFFF
color3 FFFFFF
color4 FFFFFF
color5 DCDCDC
color6 FFFFFF
color7 FFFFFF
color8 FFFFFF

TEXT
# Various images #
${execi 300 curl -s "[url]http://weather.yahooapis.com/forecastrss?w=44418&u=c[/url]" -o ~/.cache/weather.xml}
${image ~/.conky-weather/assets/Zukitwo-Dark/God-Mode/fav-color-1.png -p 20,30 -s 228x61}\
${image ~/.conky-weather/assets/Zukitwo-Dark/God-Mode/fav-color-2.png -p 20,263 -s 228x105}\

-- mod edit: converted img to url.  Please see guidelines for image sizes - Trilby --

Last edited by Mew (2014-07-30 14:58:24)

emeres

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Registered: 2013-10-08

Posts: 1,570

Re: [SOLVED] Conky window misplaced

You can use -x and -y switches when calling conky, or look into alignment and gap_x and gap_y within the manual:

man conky

After skimming through your conky setup, those gap values should place the window in top left corner at 100,70.
What de/wm are you using? (difficult to make out from the screenshot) Should this be openbox or a tiling manager, look how it handles conky, it might be responsible.

Mew

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Registered: 2014-07-26

Posts: 4

Re: [SOLVED] Conky window misplaced

http://abload.de/img/2014-07-30-181938_19216i5y.png

I am using awesome. I have used conky+awesome before (Linux Mint), and it worked fine. -x and -y didn't help.
IMHO, it is interesting that Conky seems to know where I want the window to be (the black box), but places it in the top-left corner (0, 0).
The window is also always on top, even though I told it not to :\

Last edited by Trilby (2014-07-30 14:40:20)

Trilby

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Re: [SOLVED] Conky window misplaced

Why would you repost another large image after I removed the first.  Do not do that again.

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emeres

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Registered: 2013-10-08

Posts: 1,570

Re: [SOLVED] Conky window misplaced

Maybe something changed recently in awesome. That is what I assumed, that does not seem right however, the window should be further to the right than down (100,70) [e] (it probably is calculated from the bottom left corner judging by the blackbox) [/e]. Awesome wiki suggests:

own_window yes
own_window_transparent yes
own_window_type desktop

I would try that own_window_type desktop instead of normal.

Last edited by emeres (2014-07-30 14:59:40)

Mew

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Registered: 2014-07-26

Posts: 4

Re: [SOLVED] Conky window misplaced

Hmmm.... interesting....
'desktop' did not help, but I tried 'override' and now it's working

@Trilby:
Sorry, I did not see that you removed the screenshot. I posted another one to help me explain my problem.

Last edited by Mew (2014-07-30 14:55:57)