Thank you, I'm happy you like it. The whole setup actually exploits the ideas and work of several individuals, including you, Bruce M! In any case, what I enjoy in this thread and some others is the fact that each setup and desktop draws a certain personal flavour out of the various ingredients and the sharing of ideas.
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I'm not sure I can help much here, but I'll try. In my experience conky only uses as much vertical room as it needs. Try removing trailing spaces and extra whitespace from your conkyrc. Unfortunately the transparency part of conky is a bit misleading it actually is a window on top of your desktop (but under other windows) using the background's wallpaper as a background image too. ... so while it appears transparent it will cover icons and shortcuts on your screen. ...That said there are some tricks you can try with KDE4.2 to help out.
A.> Looks like you have found feh, that's great! You can be rid of the ~/set_wallpaper script by using ${texeci 1000 feh --bg-scale "`grep 'wallpaper=' ~/.kde/share/config/plasmarc | tail --bytes=+11`"} in place of ${execi 10000 ~/.set_wallpaper} in your conkyrc. I use texeci because it launches feh as a seperate process (thread execute) allowing conky to continue without waiting for feh to finish. This should also update when you change your plasma wallpaper. (Be patient, KDE waits for some reason before it writes to the config file.)
B.> If you want your Icons on your screen not to be covered by the conky window, use a Folder View widget instead of displaying icons on your desktop. This will move those icons down so they aren't under that pesky conky window.
C.> This last one is kinda sneaky! If you want the Conky "bar" not to be covered by other windows simply add a panel at the top of your screen and resize it's thickness to cover the conky info. then apply one of the themes that has a see through panel. (Note: The theme will effect all of your panels so YMMV.)
...hope this helps, let me know if I need to clarify any thing.
Last edited by Crinos512; February 9th, 2009 at 06:52 PM.
|| Kubuntu x86_64 (15.10 Dev.) || KDE 4.9.00 ||
|| Dell Inspiron 570 || 8GB PC3-10600 DDR3 RAM || AMD Phenom II X4 820 @ 2.8Ghz ||
|| Logitech M570 Trackball || Logitech G15 Gaming Keyboard ||
Conky: ... no such configuration: 'normal'
@Chame_Wizard: How goes your conky quest?
|| Kubuntu x86_64 (15.10 Dev.) || KDE 4.9.00 ||
|| Dell Inspiron 570 || 8GB PC3-10600 DDR3 RAM || AMD Phenom II X4 820 @ 2.8Ghz ||
|| Logitech M570 Trackball || Logitech G15 Gaming Keyboard ||
Conky: ... no such configuration: 'normal'
Last edited by plueschi; February 9th, 2009 at 04:28 PM.
I think this thread should be moved from the Community section to How-To Section.
How would I lobby that?
|| Kubuntu x86_64 (15.10 Dev.) || KDE 4.9.00 ||
|| Dell Inspiron 570 || 8GB PC3-10600 DDR3 RAM || AMD Phenom II X4 820 @ 2.8Ghz ||
|| Logitech M570 Trackball || Logitech G15 Gaming Keyboard ||
Conky: ... no such configuration: 'normal'
Over two years now for this thread. And it was never started as a "HowTo" just a Post & Show thread but it has become one of the best, most complete HowTo I have see for Conky.
Yea, I'd back that as well.
How? - I guess asking an admin would be the best place to start.
Have a nice Day
Bruce
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