The configuration I was able to get for a good working Conky window with transparency is bellow. Of course I could tell you which combination doesn't work, with the why, but since there are so many of them I simply put a working one.
own_window yes # create a separate XWindow over the one from Xfdesktop own_window_type desktop # the window cannot be moved or resized own_window_hints undecorated,below,sticky,skip_taskbar,skip_pager # make it behave like it belongs to the desktop own_window_argb_visual yes # true transparency, a compositor has to be active own_window_argb_value 100 # make the background semi-transparent double_buffer yes # avoid flickering
Here is a screenshot of the desktop with Conky in the bottom right corner, I made sure there is some I/O activity going on :-)
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Xfce with Conky |
But this approach isn't perfect. Please try call desktop menu (right click) or windows menu (middle click) in place where is Conky. Also Conky with option own_window set to yes is draggable - just try dragg with alt modyfier key.
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Yes, I've got the very same problem here, but I did a different approach -- background 100% transparent.
ReplyDeleteown_window yes
own_window_class Conky
own_window_type desktop
own_window_transparent yes
own_window_argb_visual yes
own_window_hints undecorated,below,sticky,skip_taskbar,skip_pager
double_buffer yes
Anyway, as same as Anonymous stated above, it's impossible to open the menu with a right-click over Conky's area.
@Anonymous: sure you will need to click around the window, in my case, as you can see on the screenshot, I have a lot of place where I can click :) I have tried multiple combinations with own_window no but it's unusable unless you deactivate the desktop icons.
ReplyDelete@Bremm: fully transparent background is a question of taste-n-colours :)
And global-menu ? How to install (and run) on xfce 4.8 ?
ReplyDelete@Anonymous: I have conky with right and middle clisk working:
ReplyDeletebackground no
use_xft yes
total_run_times 0
own_window no
double_buffer yes
no_buffers yes
comment on my situation
ReplyDeleteupgraded to oneiric (ubuntu 11.10)
and conky started showing wrong background picture in its window, presumably gdm's or x's or something which was presumably under xfce's. block of it showing through as conky bg. anyway, used brem's comments up there directly and works fine, transparent totally to correct bg. thanks!
Well done!
ReplyDeletemmm can I also ask your background color?
There is a link to a complete .conkyrc file at the end of the post: http://bubbie.mmassonnet.info/~mike/public/.conkyrc.
ReplyDeleteOh, I'm sorry for not be clear...I'm asking about the color of the whole desktop background...I see that this is a transparent wallpaper of XFCE, but I really like your shade of color...
ReplyDeleteThanks!
Color is #152233 and background name is xfce-stripes.png.
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