Conky doesn't seem to stay on top.

jordanwb · 2008-11-08 02:57:34

I installed conky on my laptop and I'm using the 3rd one on the left on the bottom row of this page. In gnome I added it to the list of programs to start. When my computer loads I see conky load but my wallpaper seems to be placed on top of it and I can no longer see conky.

Also - on an unrelated note - Arch wants to start Portmap twice.

Last edited by jordanwb (2008-11-08 03:11:25)

SkonesMickLoud · 2008-11-08 06:59:31

Sounds like Nautilus/Compiz is drawing the wallpaper after conky starts. Put sleep xx & conky in your sessions, where xx is seconds. Could be fine in as little as 5 seconds, but it could take longer.

Last edited by SkonesMickLoud (2008-11-08 07:01:10)

jordanwb · 2008-11-08 13:35:55

I don't have Compiz installed, but I'll try what you suggested when I get home from school.

jordanwb · 2008-11-08 23:12:38

SkonesMickLoud wrote:

Put sleep xx & conky in your sessions, where xx is seconds. Could be fine in as little as 5 seconds, but it could take longer.

I tried that but it still does not load. When I run conky from the console I get all these errors (which may be causing problems):

[jordanwb@LAPTOP ~]$ conky
Conky: statfs '/mnt/slack': No such file or directory
Conky: desktop window (1000037) is subwindow of root window (45)
Conky: drawing to desktop window
Conky: drawing to double buffer
Conky: statfs '/mnt/slack': No such file or directory
tail: cannot open `/var/log/messages' for reading: No such file or directory (This line keeps repeating)

jordanwb wrote:

Also - on an unrelated note - Arch wants to start Portmap twice.

Fixed, the order of the daemons in /etc/rc.conf was incorrect. When I see daemon I think of the digimon. V:rolleyes:V

Lord Illidan · 2008-11-08 23:27:56

Since you copied the conkyrc file from somewhere else, it might conceivably be referring to directories and files you don't have. I suggest you go over the file and remove what's wrong, or replace it. It's not too hard to do.

creslin · 2008-11-08 23:29:31

You're using a config of someone with a different system:

${offset 240}${color slate grey}SLACK:  ${color }${fs_free /mnt/slack}/${fs_size /mnt/slack}
${offset 240}${fs_bar 3,100 /mnt/slack}
...
${color slate grey}/var/log/messages:
${color}${exec tail -n20 /var/log/messages}

Those don't exist on your system.

jordanwb · 2008-11-08 23:39:36

I commented the lines by prefixing with a # but I still get the errors.

creslin · 2008-11-08 23:41:43

Conky doesn't parse for comments below the "TEXT" marker. Move the lines above "TEXT" and hash them out, or delete them completely.

jordanwb · 2008-11-08 23:46:04

Ok thanks. I no longer get the errors. I'll see if conky'll load via sessions.

[Edit]

No dice, conky still doesn't load even if "sleep 20 && conky"

Hmm, conky would be just another thing for my laptop to start.

Last edited by jordanwb (2008-11-08 23:49:34)

creslin · 2008-11-09 00:02:23

jordanwb wrote:

No dice, conky still doesn't load even if "sleep 20 && conky"

You'll have to ask experienced gnome users how they do it. I don't think the gnome startup manager is able to handle "sleep x && y" entries. At least I never got them to work, but like I said, I'm not familiar enough with gnome.

Ekimino · 2008-11-09 10:08:31

A nasty way to do it, is to add the sleep conky line to you're .xinitrc after gnome-exec-session

Lord Illidan · 2008-11-09 11:45:56

First of all, does conky load up if you launch it after Gnome wallpaper has loaded and all? Does it work, at least?

What I do on my system is make a script, call it conkyscript.sh

#!/bin/bash
sleep 40 && conky;

And then make it executable with chmod +x conkyscript.sh, and then give gnome-session-manager the link to that script. The sleep 40 always works with my system, even it launches 10 seconds after the wallpaper loads..not that I care that much.

jordanwb · 2008-11-09 12:41:36

Lord Illidan wrote:

First of all, does conky load up if you launch it after Gnome wallpaper has loaded and all? Does it work, at least?

If I go into the terminal and type conky, then yes it does load.

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Conky doesn't seem to stay on top.

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