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daryl314

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Registered: 2013-12-19

Posts: 15

Conky not refreshing with Plasma 5

Hello,

I upgraded my KDE desktop to Plasma 5 following instructions on the wiki and Conky has been acting strangely ever since.  Conky is refreshing on an interval much longer than 1 second, when I start it only a small black box appears for a while, and sometimes the window disappears for a while before reappearing.  Does anyone have any thoughts on getting this to work again?

These are my own_window settings:

own_window yes
own_window_type normal
own_window_hints undecorated,below,sticky,skip_taskbar,skip_pager
own_window_transparent no
own_window_class Conky

Thanks,
Daryl

Morn

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Registered: 2012-09-02

Posts: 886

Re: Conky not refreshing with Plasma 5

I've also noticed the disappearance issue. If you open another window, e.g. a terminal, Conkly will reappear. I think this is a compositing bug in kwin. Maybe your longer-than-1-sec refreshes are also compositing-related somehow? I use 10 secs, so I haven't seen this myself.

Plasma 5 is still a bit buggy. Maybe you could try kwin-git from AUR.

daryl314

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Registered: 2013-12-19

Posts: 15

Re: Conky not refreshing with Plasma 5

It started more or less working again after a pacman update and a reboot.  I'll try kwin-git if it starts acting up again.

miku84

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Registered: 2015-03-31

Posts: 45

Re: Conky not refreshing with Plasma 5

Does it still disappear, reappear for others as well?
To me it still happens on Plasma 5.2.2, somethimes conky crashes.

I use conky-harmattan with this setting:
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=193259

Any solution for it?

wwmm

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From: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Registered: 2010-08-14

Posts: 28

Re: Conky not refreshing with Plasma 5

This happens to me too. Plasma 5.3.0

miku84

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Registered: 2015-03-31

Posts: 45

Re: Conky not refreshing with Plasma 5

"dock" may help
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php … 6#p1524996

Last edited by miku84 (2015-05-26 06:20:59)

Buddlespit

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From: Chesapeake, Va.

Registered: 2014-02-07

Posts: 501

Re: Conky not refreshing with Plasma 5

To keep my conky from doing the disappearing/ re-appearing act, I had to modify this:

own_window yes
own_window_type panel
own_window_transparent yes

This leads to a different problem, windows will not open over conky, but can be moved over conky after opening. Nowhere near as annoying as the blinking conky.

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tillschaefer

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Registered: 2015-05-11

Posts: 3

Re: Conky not refreshing with Plasma 5

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=354869

-> it has affected every "keep below" window so far for me (i have also noticed this for conky)