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    Question Nothing appears on my desktop except my WallPaper

    Hi. I'm currently using ubuntu 12.10 quantal and i'm loving it. I tried to install infinity conky. I followed the instructions correctly from here...

    http://www.unixmen.com/infinity-a-st...uxmint-fedora/

    Everything went on well and finally when i ran it using the code below in terminal, an error appeared and it kept filling the terminal forever... repeating "Error: No Battery found Bat-1".

    Code:
    chmod a+x ~/.conky/startconky.sh
    sh ~/.conky/startconky.sh
    I minimized all the applications and found Conky running good. After a while the entire conky appeared with a White background, instead of my ubuntu background. Also i've added Conky to the start up applications as said in the instructions. I closed the terminal killling the code, and i restarted.
    When i logged in, nothing was visible except my desktop background. I used "ctrl+alt+T" to run terminal and opened firefox through it. Now i'm typing from it. Any help !!! Kind of Freaky...

    Thanks in advance

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    Re: Nothing appears on my desktop except my WallPaper

    Perhaps the 15 seconds delay is not enough for your system to start before Conky does. Modify the script and increase the startup time (try 40 seconds)

    EDIT: About the error you keep receiving in the terminal, it's because the Conky config has an object for displaying battery, while your computer doesn't run on battery (or it doesn, but it doesn't use BAT1)
    Last edited by zombifier25; October 27th, 2012 at 12:56 PM.

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    Re: Nothing appears on my desktop except my WallPaper

    Quote Originally Posted by Paari View Post
    Everything went on well and finally when i ran it using the code below in terminal, an error appeared and it kept filling the terminal forever... repeating "Error: No Battery found Bat-1".
    Not really anything to worry about ..... the config file as it stands simply cant find your battery. Your battery may be on bat0, but if it really bothers you, just open the .conkyrc file and comment out (#) the battery line

    Follow the advice given above. Conky needs to be delayed until the startup process is completely done ....hence, the delay. Unusual things will happen otherwise.


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    Re: Nothing appears on my desktop except my WallPaper

    Thank you larrys4227 and zombifier25 As you have said i've deleted the battery block and the "name=," block. Now the errors are gone and conky starts very well. But Still my sidebar, menubar(at top) and my beautiful dock are not visible. Only the wallpaper and conky are visible. Well i can also open all the other applications through terminal like usual. For example: firefox, nautilus, gedit, etc. But as a beginner i greatly need my sidebar to open stuff easily. Any help !!!

    Again Thank you for your help

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    Re: Nothing appears on my desktop except my WallPaper

    What happens if you run "killall conky" in the terminal?
    Also, it would be helpful if you attach a screenshot of your current desktop.

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    Re: Nothing appears on my desktop except my WallPaper

    I have attached the screen shots of my desktop before and after I ran your code...

    Code:
    killall conky
    I tried ubuntu Tweak. Then I cleared all the unnecessary files in my home folder(The attempts which i had given before to install conky) And i had given many attempts to restore my desktop. But couldn't resolve. Any Suggestions....

    Thanks
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    Re: Nothing appears on my desktop except my WallPaper

    Hi ,

    try
    Code:
    setsid unity
    If nothing happens , then open compizconfig-settings-manager and enable Unity Plugin.

    Code:
    ccsm
    You can open a terminal with CTRL+ALT+T keys combo
    You can install ccsm with this command
    Code:
    sudo apt-get install compizconfig-settings-manager
    Thanks
    Last edited by NikTh; October 29th, 2012 at 07:31 AM. Reason: Typo corrected. Sorry

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    Re: Nothing appears on my desktop except my WallPaper

    Quote Originally Posted by NikTh View Post
    Hi ,

    try
    Code:
    setuid unity
    If nothing happens , then open compizconfig-settings-manager and enable Unity Plugin.

    Code:
    ccsm
    You can open a terminal with CTRL+ALT+T keys combo
    You can install ccsm with this command
    Code:
    sudo apt-get install compizcofig-settings-manager
    Thanks
    Err what is the point of
    Code:
    setuid unity
    ?

    And it's compizconfig-settings-manager. Also, you can't disable Unity in CCSM.



    OP, run this command to determine if Compiz is indeed running:
    Code:
    ps x | grep compiz
    If it only outputs "grep --color=auto compiz", then Compiz is not running. Try launching it manually.

    You should reset all Compiz settings to their original values.
    Code:
    gconftool --recursive-unset /apps/compiz-1

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    Re: Nothing appears on my desktop except my WallPaper

    NikTh just had a couple of typos and
    you can disable/enable unity in ccsm.
    The disable button just isn't available until you enter the Ubuntu Unity Plugin.

    In Quantal to set compiz back to defaults use
    Code:
    dconf reset -f /org/compiz/
    Then reload with...
    Code:
    setsid unity
    To install ccsm use...
    Code:
    sudo apt-get install compizconfig-settings-manager
    and to run, alt+f2 or open the dash, and enter
    Code:
    ccsm

    @ Paari...other commands you may find useful.
    wmctrl is a useful little program which among other things can show your
    current window manager.
    Code:
    sudo apt-get install wmctrl
    Check window manager
    Code:
    wmctrl -m
    eg my output
    Code:
    glen@Quantal:~$ wmctrl -m
    Name: Compiz
    Class: N/A
    PID: N/A
    Window manager's "showing the desktop" mode: OFF
    Also the conky your using uses a bash script to delay the start of your conky config which is at ~/.conkyrc.
    You can delay the start of conky using it's in built pause function (-p <secs>)
    So instead of using the bash script in startup applications you could just use
    as the command...
    Code:
    conky -p 20
    Last edited by stinkeye; October 29th, 2012 at 07:30 AM.

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    Re: Nothing appears on my desktop except my WallPaper

    Sorry for the typos. Corrected.

    zombifier25 , stinkeye answered

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