Conky - taskbar

YscO · 2007-01-10 20:56:51

Well the question that I've got is really short:
"Is it possible to show the taskbar with conky?"

Then I only have to use Openbox and Conky (no more panel). The only thing I can find is how to hide it from your taskbar

harlekin · 2007-01-10 21:00:28

I thinks there are two options. Either change your taskbar configuration telling to not show conky.

Or try to use this in your conkrc file (don't know wether it works):

own_window_type normal
own_window_hints undecorate,sticky,skip_taskbar,skip_pager

I guess skip_taskbar is what you are looking for. As well it would be helpful to know which panel you are using. E.g. pypanel does have options to hide certain apps from being shown.

YscO · 2007-01-10 21:12:57

harlekin, you are telling me how to remove conky from the taskbar, but that isn't the problem

What I want to know is, if it is possible to show the taskbar with conky (so I can see what minimized windows I have running at that moment).

daedalusman · 2007-01-10 23:49:02

I don't think conky can do this sort of thing. Though its a great idea that I would like to see.

picpak · 2007-01-11 00:56:51

For now, you can just Alt+Tab through the windows.

harlekin · 2007-01-11 06:18:25

Ah, I was too tired yesterday, I think. In fact I still am, eh, nevermind.

No, conky is not capable of displaying applications like a taskbar.
You could use pypanel and design it like your conky bar and put it above your conky but this is neither very clean nor what you want, I guess.

smoon · 2007-01-11 11:17:22

YscO wrote:

harlekin, you are telling me how to remove conky from the taskbar, but that isn't the problem
What I want to know is, if it is possible to show the taskbar with conky (so I can see what minimized windows I have running at that moment).

As already mentioned by others this is not possible with conky. But if you like conky, I bet you'll love Visibility, a mixture of pager and taskbar. It shouldn't be too hard to even make it look like it is part of conky.

byte · 2007-01-11 15:05:01

For those (like me) wanting to try visibility because of the previous post: I'll have it adopted, fixed and updated in an hour or so.

TomE · 2007-01-11 20:30:17

You can use wmctrl (its in aur) this will do all tasks:
wmctrl -l | awk -F " YOUR_HOST_NAME " {'printf $NF " "'}

You may have to put them in a script for them to work in conky

YscO · 2007-01-13 17:12:19

I'm going to try visibility.

TomE, I guess that is the best option and I'm going to try to build it. But I have to learn how to make scripts etc. I'm not a programmer ...

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Conky - taskbar

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Re: Conky - taskbar

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