Conky Starts in GNOME, but not in LXDE

Hello all,

I'm running Ubuntu 11.10 (originally with Unity, but I installed LXDE on top), and used to be able to run Conky without trouble in whichever DE I wanted to.

As I was unable to use dual Monitors with LXDE, the past month had me using GNOME a lot more often, until I found an hour ago a way of setting it up in LXDE. To my surprise, Conky stubbornly refuses to run in LXDE, single or dual monitors alike. I have no idea why.

These are the messages that it prints as I invoke it from terminal:

Code:

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:~$ conky
Conky: desktop window (1e0012f) is subwindow of root window (c7)
Conky: window type - override
Conky: drawing to created window (0x5000001)
Conky: drawing to double buffer

FATAL_ERROR: The server is not running!


FATAL_ERROR: The server is not running!


FATAL_ERROR: The server is not running!
(Note: from here and on it just keeps looping this line)

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Anyone got a clue of what I could do?

I've searched just about the whole internet for some reproduction of this issue, and haven't seen anything close. If someone knows a thread explaining this issue, please let me know.

I will, too, post my .conkyrc upon request, though I don't think it has to do with the issue.

Thanks in advance.

I have noticed in the past sometimes a conkyrc works fine in one DE and not so fine in another. Post your .conkyrc and I will see if I get the same problem.

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Originally Posted by Version Dependency

I have noticed in the past sometimes a conkyrc works fine in one DE and not so fine in another. Post your .conkyrc and I will see if I get the same problem.

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Some news to me. Didn't (use to) happen to me before, as both LXDE and GNOME were fine and dandy with conky (a month ago). Anyway:

Code:

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alignment top_right
background no
double_buffer 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 Ubuntu:size=12
gap_x 0
gap_y 26
minimum_size 300
maximum_width 300
net_avg_samples 2
no_buffers yes
out_to_console no
out_to_stderr no
extra_newline no
own_window yes
own_window_type override
own_window_transparent yes
own_window_hints undecorated,below,sticky,skip_taskbar,skip_pager
stippled_borders 0
update_interval 1.0
uppercase no
use_spacer none
show_graph_scale no
show_graph_range no

TEXT

${font Arial:bold:size=18}${alignc}All Systems are a Go!${font}
${hr 3}
${font Arial:size=30}${alignc}${time %H:%M:%S}${font}
${font Ubuntu:size=10}${alignc}You on time, bro?
${hr 3}
${font Arial:size=15}${alignc}STATUS:${font}
CPU1: ${cpu cpu1}% ${cpubar cpu1 10}
CPU2: ${cpu cpu2}% ${cpubar cpu2 10}
RAM: ${mem}/${memmax} ${membar 10}
SWAP: $swap
LINUX: ${fs_used}/${fs_size} ${fs_bar 10 /}
TEMP: ${acpitemp}°C
${hr 3}
${font Arial:size=15}${alignc}CONNECTIVITY:${font}
${alignc}Wi-Fi:
UP:${upspeed wlan0}  DOWN:${downspeed wlan0}
Strength: ${wireless_link_bar 10 wlan0}
${alignc}LAN:
UP:${upspeed eth0}  DOWN:${downspeed eth0}
${hr 3}
${font Arial:size=15}${alignc}I'VE GOT THAT TUNE:${font}
${alignc}---
${if_running audacious2}${alignc}AUDACIOUS:
${alignc}${exec audtool2 current-song-tuple-data artist}
${alignc}${exec audtool2 --current-song}
${alignc}${exec audtool2 --current-song-output-length} - ${exec audtool2 --current-song-length}
${endif}
${if_running mocp}${alignc}MOC:
${alignc}${moc_artist}
${alignc}${moc_song}
${alignc}${moc_curtime} - ${moc_totaltime}
$endif

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I use these Window settings In Lubuntu using LXDE

Code:

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# Window Settings
own_window yes
own_window_transparent yes
own_window_type normal
own_window_hints undecorated,below,sticky,skip_taskbar,skip_pager

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Rodney

Hey, Rodney, that actually worked!
Conky is still spewing that "Fatal Error" message, but the window is full rendered and live again. Thank you!

got success with conky transparency in LXDE on debian squeezy, with pcmanfm running.
In the conky config file (i.e. .conkyrc) I removed all 'own_window' lines, except the following:

Code:

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own_window yes
own_window_class conky
own_window_transparent yes
own_window_hints undecorated,below,skip_taskbar,sticky,skip_pager

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Adding again some often used lines like

Code:

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own_window_argb_visual yes

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caused transparency to fail, or conky wouldn't start at all. Very strange...