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pedro-kun

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From: Portugal

Registered: 2007-07-20

Posts: 30

Conky, Openbox and Xcompmgr

Hi :)

After visiting this post to learn how to get conky and xcompmgr to get along, I'd like to know if there's anyway we can make openbox show its menu when we right-click on conky's window.
As it is, conky already displays fine, with no flicker and no shadow... it virtually is part of the desktops' background now. However, i still wanted to be able to right-click on it and have it act as if it indeed was part of the background... like, making conky "pass" the right-click to openbox

Does anybody know how to do this?

Thanks in advance

Army

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Registered: 2007-12-07

Posts: 1,784

Re: Conky, Openbox and Xcompmgr

What you describe works here with these lines (I hope they are the important ones)

own_window no
own_window_transparent no
own_window_type root
own_window_hints below,undecorated,sticky,skip_taskbar,skip_pager

pedro-kun

Member

From: Portugal

Registered: 2007-07-20

Posts: 30

Re: Conky, Openbox and Xcompmgr

Army,

What you posted indeed works in the way that it allows me to right click conky and get the openbox's menu.. However, the entire window manager flickers (conky displays properly, but the windows themselves disappear everytime conky is repainted).

Thanks anyway :) If anybody has a better solution, please enlighten me :)

tsr-nc

Member

Registered: 2009-02-07

Posts: 40

Re: Conky, Openbox and Xcompmgr

I am interested in a solution to this as well

musicmastamike

Member

Registered: 2009-01-28

Posts: 12

Re: Conky, Openbox and Xcompmgr

Sorry to resurrect this, but I was just curious about the same issue.  Here's what I ended up using:

own_window yes
own_window_type override

You can set own_window_transparent to whatever you want.  I'm not having any problems with redrawing/windows disappearing/etc.  own_window_hints are ignored.

Last edited by musicmastamike (2009-12-22 19:28:02)