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tronica

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Registered: 2006-11-02

Posts: 121

conky help

im using a conky script on found on here, i have to problems with it, first is if i run it, then it makes my desktop icons disappear. second is the bottom of it is being cut off. Is there anything i can do about either of these. Heres my .conkyrc

background yes
use_xft yes
xftfont sans:italic:size=8
xftalpha 0.8
update_interval 1
own_window yes
own_window_type root
own_window_transparent yes
own_window_hints undecorated,below,skip_taskbar,skip_pager
draw_shades yes
draw_outline no
draw_borders no
border_margin 1
#border_width 1
draw_graph_borders no
default_color white
default_shade_color black
default_outline_color black
alignment bottom_left
gap_x 1
gap_y 1
#no_buffers yes
uppercase no
double_buffer yes
override_utf8_locale yes
mpd_host localhost

mpd_port 6600
minimum_size 400 400
use_spacer yes

TEXT
${voffset 834}
$color ${font openlogos:bold:size=18}B${font sans:bold:size=13}arch${font sans:size=12}linux
$color ${font sans:bold:italic:size=8}KRL  $font${color gray}$kernel
$color ${font sans:bold:italic:size=8}DAT  $font${color gray}${time %A %d %B}  ${time  %H:%M:%S}
$color ${font sans:bold:italic:size=8}CPU  $font${color gray}$cpu%  ${freq}MHz @$acpitemp F°
$color ${font sans:bold:italic:size=8}RAM  $font${color gray}$memperc%  $mem / $memmax
$color ${font sans:bold:italic:size=8}HOM  $font${color gray}${fs_used_perc /home}%  ${fs_free /home}
$color ${font sans:bold:italic:size=8}VID  $font${color gray}${fs_used_perc /media/VIDEOS}%  ${fs_free /media/VIDEOS}
$color ${font sans:bold:italic:size=8}DOC  $font${color gray}${fs_used_perc /media/DOCUMENTS}%  ${fs_free /media/DOCUMENTS}
$color ${font sans:bold:italic:size=8}MPD  $font${color gray}${mpd_smart}
$color ${font sans:bold:italic:size=8}DWN  $font${color gray}${downspeed eth0} k/s  ${totaldown eth0}  
$color ${font sans:bold:italic:size=8}UP.  $font${color gray}${upspeed eth0} k/s  ${totalup eth0}
$color ${font sans:bold:italic:size=8}UPT  $font${color gray}$uptime

fwojciec

Member

Registered: 2007-05-20

Posts: 1,411

Re: conky help

Try changing "own window type" from "root" to "desktop" and if that doesn't work try changing it to "normal" or "override" (without quotation marks).  Different settings are needed for different DEs/WMs.