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Conky - Kubuntu 14.04 - Covers all windows

I've tried Conky in the past, and due to its "crankiness" ie: issues with backgrounds, flickering etc., I've just chosen to pass on it.

In a situation where this would be helpful, but have one issue:

Conky covers all windows or bleeds through

I had all the usual, still, headaches, flickering, no transparency. And the one that always seems to kill the deal. Click on the kicker bar, desktop, and Conky disappears.

OK from all the searches, it seems that own_window_type dock is the cure.

Yes, that fixes the great conky disappearing act, but causes a new problem:

Conky covers up or bleeds through everything.

I have just the default conky.conf with the following additions at the top:

 
own_window_argb_visual yes
own_window_argb_value 0
own_window yes
own_window_class Conky
own_window_type dock
 
alignment top_left
background yes
border_width 1
cpu_avg_samples 2
default_color white
default_outline_color white
default_shade_color white
draw_borders no
draw_graph_borders yes
draw_outline no
draw_shades no
use_xft yes
xftfont DejaVu Sans Mono:size=12
gap_x 5
gap_y 60
minimum_size 5 5
net_avg_samples 2
no_buffers yes
out_to_console no
out_to_stderr no
extra_newline no
 
stippled_borders 0
update_interval 1.0
uppercase no
use_spacer none
show_graph_scale no
show_graph_range no
 
TEXT
${scroll 16 $nodename - $sysname $kernel on $machine | }
$hr
${color grey}Uptime:$color $uptime
${color grey}Frequency (in MHz):$color $freq
${color grey}Frequency (in GHz):$color $freq_g
${color grey}RAM Usage:$color $mem/$memmax - $memperc% ${membar 4}
${color grey}Swap Usage:$color $swap/$swapmax - $swapperc% ${swapbar 4}
${color grey}CPU Usage:$color $cpu% ${cpubar 4}
${color grey}Processes:$color $processes  ${color grey}Running:$color $running_processes
$hr
${color grey}File systems:
 / $color${fs_used /}/${fs_size /} ${fs_bar 6 /}
${color grey}Networking:
Up:$color ${upspeed eth0} ${color grey} - Down:$color ${downspeed eth0}
$hr
${color grey}Name              PID   CPU%   MEM%
${color lightgrey} ${top name 1} ${top pid 1} ${top cpu 1} ${top mem 1}
${color lightgrey} ${top name 2} ${top pid 2} ${top cpu 2} ${top mem 2}
${color lightgrey} ${top name 3} ${top pid 3} ${top cpu 3} ${top mem 3}
${color lightgrey} ${top name 4} ${top pid 4} ${top cpu 4} ${top mem 4}
 
 

I use:

conky -b -o -x 123 -y 5
 

To call it right now, but the last problem I have is it just keeps covering up everything.

Before I invest in getting things to read temps, fan speed, weather data, etc. I need to know this works. This particular installation has to go to a complete non tech user, so I either have to enable, set it up, and forget it, or just plain forget about it. Conky would help them in some things so I really would like to solve this.

So how do you get this thing to stop covering/bleeding through?

Distro: Kubuntu 14.04 - Fully updated
Generic what ever drivers for video that come with it the base setup.

jcouch93
join:2002-01-29
Kennesaw, GA

jcouch93

Member

I would try playing with the own_window_type setting and see if that has an effect.

See here: »conky.sourceforge.net/co ··· ngs.html

I know I had a problem when I set Conky up in that it would show up and I couldn't move it until I changed it. Hope that helps!