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jack.mitchell

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From: Ely, Cambridgeshire, UK

Registered: 2008-08-28

Posts: 156

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Openbox/Conky/XCompMgr Configuration Help

Hello everyone,

IVe been playing with my new arch setup for a day or two on and off now. Its the first time i've really ventured into the depths of creating my very own fully customised desktop. For the purpose I have chosed openbox as my window manager, xcompmgr for some nice shadows etc and i am currently trying to configure conky correctly. So, I have two parts that I am stuck with.

1) I cannot for the life in me get %P or %p to work with the conky time command, it just doesnt show up. It should show either AM or PM. Could somebody test this for me and see if it is just my arch or is it a problem in general.

2) Can I exclude applications from having shadows, i've posted a screenshot below showing you how conky looks, I basically want it fully transparent.

Thanks in advance!
Jack

# Conky configuration
background yes
use_xft yes
xftfont "AvantGarde-Book Th":size=30
xftalpha 0.8
out_to_console no
update_interval 1
total_run_times 0
own_window yes
own_window_type normal
own_window_transparent yes
own_window_hints undecorated,below,sticky,skip_taskbar,skip_pager
double_buffer yes
draw_shades no
draw_outline no
draw_borders no
draw_graph_borders yes
stippled_borders 5
border_margin 4
border_width 1
default_color grey
default_shade_color black
default_outline_color black
alignment top_right
gap_x 40
gap_y 40
no_buffers no
uppercase no
cpu_avg_samples 2
net_avg_samples 2
override_utf8_locale yes
use_spacer none

#Set size of conky window to allow ridiculous offsets ;)
#minimum_size 100 50

TEXT
${color black}${font "AvantGarde-Book Th":size=60}${time %I}
${offset 105}${voffset -120}${color black}${font "AvantGarde-Book Th":size=30}$$
${offset 110}${voffset -20}${color black}${font "AvantGarde-Book Th":size=15}${$
${offset 5}${voffset -5}${hr 2}
${offset 13}${voffset 0}${color black}${font "AvantGarde-Book Th":size=13}${tim$

Last edited by jack.mitchell (2008-08-28 13:34:19)

feminaexlux

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From: /home/lani

Registered: 2008-08-28

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Re: Openbox/Conky/XCompMgr Configuration Help

Hmm, both %P and %p work for me.

Here's my setup for conky, xcompmgr doesn't put any shadows on it I think the part in bold is what you need.

background no
own_window yes
own_window_type desktop

Conky displays "am" in this line.

${alignc}${offset -40}${font Dustismo Roman:Bold:size=18}${time %a, %b %d %Y %P}${font}

Hmm. Also, your code is cut off. There's no chance that your conky confinements are too small?

Last edited by feminaexlux (2008-08-28 17:05:17)

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jack.mitchell

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From: Ely, Cambridgeshire, UK

Registered: 2008-08-28

Posts: 156

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Re: Openbox/Conky/XCompMgr Configuration Help

Hello,

Thank you! That seemed to do the trick, however my %p still doesn't work but I can live without it. Im going to start a new thread elsewhere but ill pop the question in here too. Is there a panel which I can assign virtual desktops to? What I want is to have 4 panels and each one is dedicated to a virtual desktop, has anyone seen anything like this before?

Regards,
Jack.

Stythys

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From: SF Bay Area

Registered: 2008-05-18

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Re: Openbox/Conky/XCompMgr Configuration Help

tbh the scroll wheel works perfectly for me. I have three virtual desktops, so every single one is within the reach one another. I don't even have a panel, I just have stalonetray + conky

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