Conky Problems

[iSplicer]

Hey all

I installed conky through synaptic as usual, but on Hardy Heron, when I start conky from alt+f2, it shows up as a separate window, rather than on the desktop where it should be... Could someone please help me fix this? Here is a screenshot:




Thanks in advance

[Ek0nomik]

The only thing I can think of is your conkyrc file being screwed up.

Could you post it? (~/.conkyrc)

[iSplicer]

I cannot find it, even when viewing hidden files and folders!

[Ek0nomik]

I cannot find it, even when viewing hidden files and folders!

Try:

locate conky

If it doesn't find anything, try running this first, and then the above command:

updatedb

[iSplicer]

Thanks for your reply but neither of those worked.. I tried the first one.. nothing.

The second one gives an error:

isplicer@isplicer-laptop:~$ updatedb
updatedb: can not open a temporary file for `/var/lib/mlocate/mlocate.db'

[spiderbatdad]

sudo updatedb

[Ek0nomik]

Thanks for your reply but neither of those worked.. I tried the first one.. nothing.

The second one gives an error:

Well this is odd.

I swear I'm not trying to be rude, seeing as how you have conky up and all, but make sure it's in:

sudo apt-get install conky

It says it's already installed right?

[Ek0nomik]

sudo updatedb

I suppose that makes sense. :/

[iSplicer]

Well this is odd.

I swear I'm not trying to be rude, seeing as how you have conky up and all, but make sure it's in:

sudo apt-get install conky

It says it's already installed right?

Thanks for the reply, but its already installed

isplicer@isplicer-laptop:~$ sudo apt-get install conky
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
conky is already the newest version.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
isplicer@isplicer-laptop:~$

Output of locate conky after sudo updatedb:

isplicer@isplicer-laptop:~$ locate conky
/etc/conky
/etc/conky/conky.conf
/usr/bin/conky
/usr/share/doc/conky
/usr/share/doc/conky/AUTHORS.gz
/usr/share/doc/conky/NEWS.Debian.gz
/usr/share/doc/conky/NEWS.gz
/usr/share/doc/conky/README.Debian
/usr/share/doc/conky/README.gz
/usr/share/doc/conky/TODO
/usr/share/doc/conky/changelog.Debian.gz
/usr/share/doc/conky/changelog.gz
/usr/share/doc/conky/config_settings.html
/usr/share/doc/conky/copyright
/usr/share/doc/conky/docs.html
/usr/share/doc/conky/examples
/usr/share/doc/conky/variables.html
/usr/share/doc/conky/examples/conky.conf.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/conky.1.gz
/usr/share/menu/conky
/var/cache/apt/archives/conky_1.5.1-1ubuntu1_i386.deb
/var/lib/dpkg/info/conky.conffiles
/var/lib/dpkg/info/conky.list
/var/lib/dpkg/info/conky.md5sums
/var/lib/dpkg/info/conky.postinst
/var/lib/dpkg/info/conky.postrm
isplicer@isplicer-laptop:~$

Thanks go to all that helped

[Ek0nomik]

Try the following:

cp /etc/conky/conky.conf ~/.conkyrc

Open the file:

gedit ~/.conkyrc

Search for: "own_window"

Make sure it says "no".