xgl - xfce4 - conky help

grail · 2006-05-02 22:15:56

I started running compiz/xgl and xfce4 and it all works fine but after conky starts and I click on the desktop conky seems to disappear behinf the wallpaper?

I think it may be due to that xfce is set 'allow xfce to manage the desktop' in the desktop settings. I can untick this but when I logout and tick save current session it does not seem to work, as when I log back in it's still ticked and xfce is still managing the desktop.

Any way to untick this option some other way, such as edit a .*rc file somewhere?

grail · 2006-05-03 03:39:20

So does anyone know where xfce keeps the sttings made by the gui 'desktop-settings'? Maybe I can edit that file?

byte · 2006-05-03 04:56:36

file:///opt/xfce4/share/xfce4/doc//C/xfce4-components.html wrote:

xfdesktop
Desktop background manager. This program sets the background image and/or color, and provides a root window menu, a menu panel plugin and a menu editor.

xfdesktop somehow sits on top of the root window, so I guess you either live without it ('killall xfdesktop' and save that session on logout) or without conky.

eddy · 2006-05-03 06:08:52

Hi there
I had a similar problem today. I dont use xfce for xgl(i use gnome for xgl so this workarround might not work with xgl). When I right clicked on my desktop, and the menu appeared, conky just became white instead of transparent. I just disabled the "show desktop menu on right click". And conky stays transparent. I have "own_window_type override" in .conkyrc and devilspie with conky.ds:

(if (matches (window_name) ".*conky") (begin pin (skip_pager) (skip_tasklist)))

This works for me as long as I dont change the theme (this also makes it go white). I also dont use desktop icons (no clicking on the desktop).
Might help with your prob

grail · 2006-05-03 08:06:43

Eddy: Thanks for the suggestion. I tried it and it works.

So I disabled the right mouse button menu in xfce and set conky to use own_window_type override' and all is good. I never really used the mouse menu anyway. But I hope it's something that can be fixed in the future.

Also on another topic is there any pager applications that can do transparency?
Using gnome-panel with transparency looks good until you add the non-transparent pager applet.

fdac · 2006-07-05 14:05:53

Hi,

Found a workaround for this one. If you put conky in .xinitrc, before your startxfce4 command, it will run on the root window.

Like byte said, the problem is that xfdesktop sits on top of that, hiding conky. If you kill xfdesktop you lose the ability to set a wallpaper image or colour and to have desktop menu.

So, some searching around other forums turned up the solution: Any scripts in ~/Desktop/Autostart will be run after Xfce4, and hence xfdesktop, are already running.

Create ~/Desktop/Autostart/ and place a shell script in there, mine is called startconky.sh

# startconky.sh
#
# Shell script to run conky on top of xfdesktop
#
conky &
exit 0

This seems to work and runs conky on top of the xfdesktop window.

Hope this helps..

Francis

Arch Linux

#1 2006-05-02 22:15:56

xgl - xfce4 - conky help

#2 2006-05-03 03:39:20

Re: xgl - xfce4 - conky help

#3 2006-05-03 04:56:36

Re: xgl - xfce4 - conky help

#4 2006-05-03 06:08:52

Re: xgl - xfce4 - conky help

#5 2006-05-03 08:06:43

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