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mirko28

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Registered: 2015-03-18

Posts: 11

[SOLVED] Strange conky behavior in Awesome WM

I have problem with getting conky transparent. I'm using arch with awesome. I have posted issue on github, but I haven't got answer.

So what actually happens is when I enable

own_window_transparent yes

my widget overlaps the menu, you can see this situation on issue page.

I have also tried

own_window_argb_visual yes

and

own_window_argb_value 255

but haven't got wanted results.

Here's my .conkyrc file.

EDIT: Do I need some compositing manager? I have plasma installed alongside awesome does it include some?

Last edited by mirko28 (2015-07-21 19:08:29)

mauritiusdadd

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From: Benevento, Italy

Registered: 2013-10-27

Posts: 776

Re: [SOLVED] Strange conky behavior in Awesome WM

It seems you are still using the old configuration format, have you tried to use the new format (take a look to /usr/share/doc/conky-1.10.0/conky.conf)?
See also this thread: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=199217

Do I need some compositing manager? I have plasma installed alongside awesome does it include some?

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Co … ansparency

Last edited by mauritiusdadd (2015-07-21 13:23:50)

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mirko28

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Registered: 2015-03-18

Posts: 11

Re: [SOLVED] Strange conky behavior in Awesome WM

It seems you are still using the old configuration format, have you tried to use the new format (take a look to /usr/share/doc/conky-1.10.0/conky.conf)?
See also this thread: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=199217

Do I need some compositing manager? I have plasma installed alongside awesome does it include some?

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Co … ansparency

My conky is 1.9.0v, there's no 1.10.0 in AUR. I found source can't build it. I tried to download tar.gz, then extract, cd into folder but when I run

makepkg -s

it says

==> ERROR: PKGBUILD does not exist.

. What should I do?

Last edited by mirko28 (2015-07-21 16:26:51)

mirko28

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Registered: 2015-03-18

Posts: 11

Re: [SOLVED] Strange conky behavior in Awesome WM

It seems you are still using the old configuration format, have you tried to use the new format (take a look to /usr/share/doc/conky-1.10.0/conky.conf)?
See also this thread: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=199217

Do I need some compositing manager? I have plasma installed alongside awesome does it include some?

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Co … ansparency

Thanks, xcompmgr fixed it!

mauritiusdadd

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From: Benevento, Italy

Registered: 2013-10-27

Posts: 776

Re: [SOLVED] Strange conky behavior in Awesome WM

You're welcome
Please, remember to mark the thread as solved: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=130309

PS:

My conky is 1.9.0v, there's no 1.10.0 in AUR

$ pacman -Ss conky
extra/conky 1.10.0-4 [installed]
    Lightweight system monitor for X

but this is another issue, so if you have problems just open another thread.

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