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#1 2009-09-19 15:33:28

stephenesherman
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From: New York, US
Registered: 2009-09-19
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Conky on xfce and transparency

I couldn't get Conky to run on my xfce desktop. It would appear briefly at startup, then die.

Resetting the 'Transparency' options all the back to 'Opaque' resolved the problem for me.
(Menu --> Settings --> Window Mgr Tweaks --> Compositor)

Hope this helps someone else.

UPDATE: It helped for a while. After tweaking ~/.conkyrc the problem re-occurred. I even re-loaded the original .conkyrc and any simple tweak & save to it cause conky to stop and I must manually restart it.

Last edited by stephenesherman (2009-09-19 17:39:18)

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#2 2009-09-20 17:38:52

sputter
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Re: Conky on xfce and transparency

What is your conkyrc.?  If you start it in a terminal window, does it give you an error when it crashes?  It's a simple method to see what might be causing the crash.  It could be a bunk variable or config option.  What version of conky?

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#3 2009-09-20 17:42:21

Crows
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Re: Conky on xfce and transparency

Are you using own_window_type? Conky defaults to drawing on the root window - but Xfdesktop (the component of Xfce that lets yuo have icons) will conflict with that.

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#4 2009-09-21 00:47:06

stephenesherman
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From: New York, US
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Re: Conky on xfce and transparency

My conkyrc is here:
http://pastebin.com/m506c40b2

Since my original post I have used delay script
#!/bin/bash
sleep 15
/usr/bin/conky
which causes it to start 15 seconds after  xfce

... a real 'band-aid' approach, but helps.

At the moment, I just made a simple change to conkyrc (a font grey to yellow). There are now two conky sessions running.

I've tried various 'own_window ...' settings, here they are currently

own_window override
own_window_class Conky
own_window_type desktop
own_window_transparent yes

Thanks much.

Last edited by stephenesherman (2009-09-21 00:55:31)

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