Post your .conkyrc files w/ screenshots

[stinkeye]

Everybody onboard now?

Not on any locomotive your the driver of.
Toot Toot

[42dorian]

Ahhh , my hero mr 42dorian. Glad to see you!!

So that script and put it into "window tweaks, autostart" like this then?

~/.conkystart.sh?

...Uh... In XFCE? I believe it would be "Session and Startup > Application Autostart" ...But, I have all of mine bound to keys so I can turn Conky off from time to time. So, I can't confirm it exactly right now...

[42dorian]

Not on any locomotive your the driver of.
Toot Toot

Good point... Bad choice of words. Should have said "Everybody Understand What I'm Saying" instead...

[stylintile]

In the mean time ive been trying to write a shell script to auto start both my conkys same time. So far no luck....but thats got to be alot easier to solve than all this transparency stuff...

I use this,

conky_start.sh:

#!/bin/bash

sleep 3 &&
conky -d -c /home/dale/.my_info_lua_rc
sleep 3 &&
conky -d -c /home/dale/v9000/conky_weather

exit

as my script, and I created a launcher button on my upper taskbar with:

/home/dale/scripts/conky_start.sh

as the commandd Simply replace the file paths and names to match your files, and make sure the conky_start.sh is executable and you should be good to go. If you want it to run at start up, you can add it to your application autostart (settings>session and startup>Application Autostart). You may have to increase the sleep times, I haven't tried it with xfwm4 yet.

You guys are too quick. four or five replies while I was typing. Or... maybe I just type s...l...o...w...l...y. Anyway, the weather template should work with your v9000 and config files no problem. The info lua would have to be edited to match your system, but it wouldn't be too difficult. If you're interested let me know and I will be glad to help. And , Thank You for the compliment.

[NoTryDO]

Read again. She already fixed that problem. We're on to washed out graphics. This is why I've been saying for her to listen only to mrpeachy or dk75 when I'm not around. We're past these problems you're raising.

dk75 is correct that an upgrade to XFWM can help this, because we've already restored transparency. The black box is no longer an issue. Now it's washed out graphics in said transparency. Which, if XFWM has a code problem somewhere in her particular installation, could be fixed with the upgrade to XFWM. Thus possibly fixing errors in the compositor.

Here's the weird part. I'm using the exact same version of XFWM, Exact same version of Conky, exact same Compositor, and none of my Conky setups are reading washed out graphics. And, as some of you know, I use quite a few of them. This leads to the logical deduction that either my settings differ from Elaine's in an important way to solve this problem, or there is a bug/error in XFWM causing the errors.

So, focusing on the actual problem at hand, it's a bug in XFWM, or it's a setting in the Conky Window Settings. MINE work, and of all of us, I have the closest setup to her. If she robs out my window setup and possibly font setup sections, we can rule out Conky as the culprit (Or solve it, one or the other.) and get Elaine going properly.

Everybody onboard now?

Hey, I try help! what you problem?

It work once for me ... not again .. so I find fix and share.
Her post before, #20290, show problem with picture.

Your code not same, you use font not transpareny picture.
And you try get her use bad code, no is:
own_window_color it is own_window_colour; spell wrong cause error.

Take look at xfce forum link I give .. is problem with xfwm - and feh is a fix for this fxwm. image no washout and can change back image nice.

I don't care what you say, I help. You director of forum? Tell me go, I go!

[djyoung4]

Ahhh , my hero mr 42dorian. Glad to see you!!

So that script and put it into "window tweaks, autostart" like this then?

~/.conkystart.sh?

You could also use the Start/stop conky. Make it a launcher and it starts and stops conky for you

[BLTicklemonster]

It's been ages, but my system is running sluggish, and I figured if I had something in the background to slow it down more I'd at least be able to see what was going it.

... no wait... never mind.

anyway, here's me this morning. Well, my family. Recently. On my desktop. This morning.



The script:

# Conky settings #
background no
update_interval 1

cpu_avg_samples 2
net_avg_samples 2

override_utf8_locale yes

double_buffer yes
no_buffers yes

text_buffer_size 2048
#imlib_cache_size 0

temperature_unit fahrenheit

# Window specifications #

own_window yes
own_window_type override
own_window_transparent yes
own_window_hints undecorate,sticky,skip_taskbar,skip_pager,below

border_inner_margin 0
border_outer_margin 0

minimum_size 1200 1250
maximum_width 200

alignment tr
gap_x 35
gap_y 55

# Graphics settings #
draw_shades yes
draw_outline no
draw_borders no
draw_graph_borders no

# Text settings #
use_xft yes
xftfont caviar dreams:size=8
xftalpha 0.5

uppercase no

temperature_unit fahrenheit


default_color FFFFFF

# Lua Load  #
lua_load ~/Conky/clock_rings.lua
lua_draw_hook_pre clock_rings

TEXT
${voffset 8}${color FF6600}${font caviar dreams:size=16}${time %A}${font}${voffset -8}${alignr 50}${color FFFFFF}${font caviar dreams:size=38}${time %e}${font}
${color FFFFFF}${voffset -30}${color FFFFFF}${font caviar dreams:size=18}${time %b}${font}${voffset -3} ${color FFFFFF}${font caviar dreams:size=20}${time %Y}${font}${color FF6600}${hr}
${voffset 140}${font caviar dreams:size=10}${alignr}ROME${font}
${font caviar dreams:size=12}${color FFFFFF}${alignr}${weather http://weather.noaa.gov/pub/data/observations/metar/stations/ KRMG temperature temperature 30} °F${font}
${image ~/Conky/new-ubuntu-logo.png -p 40,85 -s 120x120}

${color FFFFFF}${goto 25}${voffset 35}${cpu cpu0}%
${color FF6600}${goto 25}CPU
${color FFFFFF}${goto 50}${voffset 23}${memperc}%
${color FF6600}${goto 50}RAM
${color FFFFFF}${goto 75}${voffset 23}${swapperc}%
${color FF6600}${goto 75}Swap
${color FFFFFF}${goto 100}${voffset 23}${fs_used_perc /}%
${color FF6600}${goto 100}Disk
${color FFFFFF}${goto 125}${voffset 25}${downspeed eth0}
${color FFFFFF}${goto 125}${upspeed eth0}
${color FF6600}${goto 125}Net

${color}File systems:
 / $color${fs_used /}/${fs_size /} ${fs_bar /}
 /home $color${fs_used /home}/${fs_size /home} ${fs_bar /home}
 /media/sdb1 $color${fs_used /media/sdb1}/${fs_size /media/sdb1} ${fs_bar /media/sdb1}
 /media/sdc5 $color${fs_used /media/sdc5}/${fs_size /media/sdc5} ${fs_bar /media/sdc5}
 /media/sdc6 $color${fs_used /media/sdc6}/${fs_size /media/sdc6} ${fs_bar /media/sdc6}
 /media/sdc7 $color${fs_used /media/sdc7}/${fs_size /media/sdc7} ${fs_bar /media/sdc7}
 /media/sdc8 $color${fs_used /media/sdc8}/${fs_size /media/sdc8} ${fs_bar /media/sdc8}

${color FFFFFF}${font caviar dreams:size=8}Uptime: ${uptime_short}
${color FFFFFF}${font caviar dreams:size=8}Processes: ${processes}
${color FFFFFF}${font caviar dreams:size=8}Running: ${running_processes}


${color FF6600}${font caviar dreams:size=8}${alignr}${nodename}
${color FF6600}${font caviar dreams:size=8}${alignr}${pre_exec cat /etc/issue.net}  $machine
${color FF6600}${font caviar dreams:size=8}${alignr}Kernel: ${kernel}

Running conky lua. And AWN. In gnome classic no frilliness.

[miegiel]

Hey, I try help! what you problem?

It work once for me ... not again .. so I find fix and share.
Her post before, #20290, show problem with picture.

Your code not same, you use font not transpareny picture.
And you try get her use bad code, no is:
own_window_color it is own_window_colour; spell wrong cause error.

Take look at xfce forum link I give .. is problem with xfwm - and feh is a fix for this fxwm. image no washout and can change back image nice.

I don't care what you say, I help. You director of forum? Tell me go, I go!

Oh, I've bumped my head against that color/colour inconsistency too. So annoying.

[mrpeachy]

ive been working on interactive conky
trying to make it easy to implement

here is a simple implementation of an interactive conky all set up through the conkyrc

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RNzt6...ature=youtu.be

here is the conkyrc

lua_load /home/mcdowall/Desktop/conky/easyclick.lua
lua_draw_hook_pre get_mouse #so that click location is only generated once per cycle rather than one per button per cycle
#lua_draw_hook_post lua_button

template1 ${lua rc_button {btype=1,bname="conkybutton1",blx_off=205,blx_on=5,bly_off=35,bw_off=10,bh_off=30,draw=1,text=1,fcol_off={0x000000},txt_off={"<","<"},font_off={"Sans"},fs_off={12},fxadj_off={1},fyadj_off={-17,-2},txt_on={">",">"}}}
template2 ${lua rc_button {btype=1,bname="conkybutton2",blx_off=205,blx_on=5,bly_off=75,bw_off=10,bh_off=30,draw=1,text=1,fcol_off={0x000000},txt_off={"<","<"},font_off={"Sans"},fs_off={12},fxadj_off={1},fyadj_off={-17,-2},txt_on={">",">"}}}

TEXT
${if_match ${template1}==0}${goto 220}${font sans:size=22}CPU: ${cpu cpu0}%${font}${else}${goto 20}${font sans:size=22}CPU: ${cpu cpu0}%${font}${voffset -14}${goto 160}CORE1: ${cpu cpu0}% ${goto 240}CORE2: ${cpu cpu2}%
${goto 160}CORE3: ${cpu cpu3}% ${goto 240}TEMP: ${hwmon 1 temp 1}°C${endif}

${if_match ${template2}==0}${goto 220}${font sans:size=22}MEM: ${memperc}%${font}${else}${goto 20}${font sans:size=22}MEM: ${memperc}%${font}${voffset -14}${goto 160}USED: ${mem} ${goto 250}${voffset -2}${memgraph 25,80}
${goto 160}${voffset -20}FREE: ${memfree}${endif}

The good part is that you don't need to know anything about lua scriptwriting to get it working

i'll put a link in my signature to the files and the HOW TO i'm writing

[NoTryDO]

Oh, I've bumped my head against that color/colour inconsistency too. So annoying.

own_window_colour

the only place colour, all others are color.

confusing.