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Sometimes it's as if conky 'steals' focus from certain applications. I have a small 12.5' laptop so I want conky to run with own_window_type "desktop", so that it doesn't use up my screen real estate when I fullscreen applications. The problem is that with this variable, usually when I'm looking at an empty desktop with nothing else opened, it will often (not always, I'm unsure why) prevent tilda from receiving it's "trigger" when I press F1, hence depriving me of my terminal. It also precludes the use of Fn+Options, such as screen brightness, the thinklight, etc. When setting the window type to something else, it all works well. Anything I can do to fix this?
EDIT : forgot to mention, the way I "fix" it is usually to open a window, such as a web browser, to change the focus somewhere else, and that gives me back my functions and my tilda.
Here is my conky config. If anyone happens to need a conky config that's a slim black bar at the bottom of the screen, it looks pretty decent.
alignment bm
background no
border_width 0
cpu_avg_samples 5
default_color white
default_outline_color white
draw_borders no
draw_graph_borders no
draw_outline no
draw_shades yesand
default_shade_color black
use_xft yes
xftfont Sans:size=10
xftalpha 1
gap_x 0
gap_y 0
minimum_size 1366 0
maximum_width 0
net_avg_samples 1
no_buffers yes
out_to_console no
own_window yes
own_window_class Conky
own_window_type desktop
own_window_transparent no
own_window_color black
own_window_hints undecorated,sticky,skip_taskbar,skip_pager
#own_window_argb_visual yes
#own_window_argb_value 130
update_interval 0.5
uppercase no
use_spacer no
use_spacer no
double_buffer yes
short_units yes
pad_percents 1
text_buffer_size 1024
temperature_unit celsius
default_bar_size 42 8
TEXT
${kernel} Linux | Uptime ${uptime} | CPUs ${cpubar cpu1} ${cpubar cpu2} ${cpubar cpu3} ${cpubar cpu4} ${hwmon temp 1}C | Mem $mem/$memmax | /root ${fs_free /} | /home ${fs_free /home} | Wireless is up on wlan0 (${wireless_link_qual_perc wlan0}%) | Download ${downspeed wlan0} (${totaldown wlan0}) | Upload ${upspeed wlan0} (${totalup wlan0})
Last edited by bolshevik (2011-09-28 17:37:07)
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Try commenting out own_window_hints.
When I moved to GNOME 3, I experienced the same problem, although my grip was the inability to use ctrl+alt+up/down if I stayed on an empty desktop with conky running.
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That actually sort of works as it prevents tilda from losing focus, but it doesn't fix the functions button which is still disabled on an empty desktop.
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