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lurvik

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Registered: 2014-03-24

Posts: 23

OpenBox and Conky as a dock not working together well

I recently switched to OpenBox, and I've for a very long time had conky configured as a dock, and it's worked fine with KDE and MATE. But with OpenBox I have a few issues. First I couldn't see the dock, because it was placed outside my screens range. I've got three monitors, and the most left one (where I want the dock) is 1280x1024, middle is 1920x1080 and right is also 1280x1024. I've had the top edges on the same Y-axis, which meant that the lowest corner is below my two edge monitors. I reconfigured the layout (lower edges are on the same Y-axis now), and now the dock is visible. However when I configure it as a panel or dock, then it gets a border. Running obxprop and clicking on conky gives the output "Unable to find window with the requested ID". Using xprop gives me "_NET_WM_WINDOW_TYPE(ATOM) = _NET_WM_WINDOW_TYPE_DOCK", that's it. However if I try "obxprop --id [id of conky window]" I get

_NET_WM_DESKTOP(CARDINAL) = 4294967295
_NET_WM_STATE(ATOM) = _NET_WM_STATE_BELOW, _NET_WM_STATE_STICKY, _NET_WM_STATE_SKIP_TASKBAR, _NET_WM_STATE_SKIP_PAGER
_WIN_LAYER(CARDINAL) = 0
_MOTIF_WM_HINTS(_MOTIF_WM_HINTS) = 2, 0, 0, 0, 0
_NET_WM_WINDOW_TYPE(ATOM) = _NET_WM_WINDOW_TYPE_DOCK
WM_PROTOCOLS(ATOM) = 
WM_NAME(STRING) = "conky (my hostname)"
WM_LOCALE_NAME(STRING) = "en_US.utf8"
WM_CLASS(STRING) = "conky", "conky"
WM_HINTS(WM_HINTS) = 3, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0
WM_CLIENT_MACHINE(STRING) = "my hostname"
WM_COMMAND(STRING) = "conky"

If I change the window type of conky to "normal", then running obxprop or xprop gives me similar output.

Openbox version: 3.6.1-1, xorg-server version: 1.17.2-4, conky version: 1.10.0.