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    Talking Re: Nothing appears on my desktop except my WallPaper

    Thank you all That worked !! Thanks a lot !!
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    Re: Nothing appears on my desktop except my WallPaper

    Thank you Stinkeye, that greatly helped. Thank you Nikth and Zombifier25. I just entered all the commands as listed and enabled it in compizconfig settings manager. Yes it worked ! Thank a lot !! Thank you all....

    ps: Great help for a newbie

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    Re: Nothing appears on my desktop except my WallPaper

    Quote Originally Posted by Paari View Post
    Thank you all That worked !! Thanks a lot !!
    Good.
    After a while the entire conky appeared with a White background, instead of my ubuntu background.
    If you find this still happening and your config includes...
    Code:
    own_window_type override
    Change to...
    Code:
    own_window_type normal
    and check this setting is also in your config..
    Code:
    own_window_hints undecorated,below,skip_taskbar,skip_pager,sticky
    own_window_type override ignores own_window_hints but
    own_window_type normal needs own_window_hints

    own_window_type override gave me problems in Quantal when used
    with own_window_transparent yes

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    Re: Nothing appears on my desktop except my WallPaper

    My conky get's that white background mostly when I run multiple applications or when I run some updates. Now I've modified the .conkyrc file as suggested...

    Code:
    # Window specifications #
    
    own_window yes
    own_window_type normal
    own_window_transparent yes
    own_window_hints undecorate,sticky,skip_taskbar,skip_pager,below
    Thanks again

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    Re: Nothing appears on my desktop except my WallPaper

    this worked for me,

    when using 12.04 i used own_window_type overide so conky was transparent on desktop

    now that i upgraded to 12.10 i need

    own_window_type normal which makes conky transparent but you can see the background borders of conky
    Last edited by tlan; April 1st, 2013 at 03:23 PM.

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    Re: Nothing appears on my desktop except my WallPaper

    Quote Originally Posted by tlan View Post
    this worked for me,

    when using 12.04 i used own_window_type overide so conky was transparent on desktop

    now that i upgraded to 12.10 i need

    own_window_type normal which makes conky transparent but you can see the background borders of conky
    When using own_window_type override conky windows are not under the control of the window manager.
    When using own_window_type normal conky windows are under the control of the window manager so you need to exclude conky from having shadows drawn by the window manager (compiz).

    ie
    In ccsm > effects > window decoration
    change the shadow windows box to...
    Code:
    (any) & !(class=Conky)
    The "!" reads as "not" .
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    Re: Nothing appears on my desktop except my WallPaper

    Quote Originally Posted by larrys4227 View Post
    Larrys what is the application in this picture? That is a marvelous little toolbar you have there.

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    Re: Nothing appears on my desktop except my WallPaper

    Quote Originally Posted by stinkeye View Post
    When using own_window_type override conky windows are not under the control of the window manager.
    When using own_window_type normal conky windows are under the control of the window manager so you need to exclude conky from having shadows drawn by the window manager (compiz).

    ie
    In ccsm > effects > window decoration
    change the shadow windows box to...
    Code:
    (any) & !(class=Conky)
    The "!" reads as "not" .
    This worked, I no longer have that border. Thanks

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    Re: Nothing appears on my desktop except my WallPaper

    Quote Originally Posted by Deaner13 View Post
    Larrys what is the application in this picture? That is a marvelous little toolbar you have there.
    Do you mean conky?

    Look at this thread for inspirations:

    http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=281865
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