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bmarques

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Registered: 2014-12-09

Posts: 30

Conky's "override" windows invisible [Xfce4 + Openbox + xcompmgr]

Hi,

I am unable to get the following conky script to run properly on my arch install, with  xfce4 + openbox + xcompmgr:

    conky.config = {
    alignment = 'bottom_left',
    own_window = true,
    own_window_class = 'Conky',
    own_window_type = 'override',
    own_window_transparent = true,
    }

    conky.text = [[
        Hello World
    ]]

If I set own_window_class to 'desktop' it works, but I don't want openbox to place windows relatively to the conky frames...
The code mentioned above shows nothing on screen, and pops the following debug messages on stdout:

conky: desktop window (e002bf) is subwindow of root window (f7)
conky: window type - override
conky: drawing to created window (0x2c00001)

Also, conky's 'override' windows do not show up in the output of `wmctrl -l`, which somehow makes sense since override windows are not supposed to be handled my the WM right?

I though at first it might be caused by compton, since I was using xcompmgr before, but I get the same issue with both compositors.
Any Ideas what I'm missing?

Thanks in advance

bmarques

Member

Registered: 2014-12-09

Posts: 30

Re: Conky's "override" windows invisible [Xfce4 + Openbox + xcompmgr]

Nevermind,

I deactivated all xfce "desktop" features (icons, wallpaper etc) with xfdesktop --quit, and used nitrogen to handle my background.
Now conky shows fine.

Though, I liked the fancy xfce desktop background changer... Is there an alternative to my solution, that would allow me to use xfce4 desktop background & conky in override mode?