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dsotm 10-21-2012 05:18 AM
Conky transparency in Fluxbox
 
I've been toying with Fluxbox on my older laptop to speed things up, but can't figure out how to make conky transparent. It worked fine in XFCE. I'm sure there's a setting somewhere that I'm missing, but my google-fu is week tonight.

Randicus Draco Albus 10-21-2012 06:48 AM
My Conky is transparent with both Openbox and Fluxbox. My conky.conf includes
Code:
own_window_transparent yes
Of course, a compositing manager must also be used and included in the autostart.sh.

dsotm 10-21-2012 06:50 AM
Quote:
Originally Posted by Randicus Draco Albus (Post 4811296)
My Conky is transparent with both Openbox and Fluxbox. My conky.conf includes
Code:
own_window_transparent yes
Of course, a compositing manager must also be used and included in the autostart.sh.
So just add xcompmgr to autostart.sh?

Randicus Draco Albus 10-21-2012 08:08 AM
I put it (xcompmgr &) at the beginning of the stuff I add at the end of the file.

mudangel 10-23-2012 07:26 PM
You don't need compositing to make Conky transparent- "own_window_transparent yes" is sufficient.

dsotm 10-23-2012 07:39 PM
Quote:
Originally Posted by mudangel (Post 4813439)
You don't need compositing to make Conky transparent- "own_window_transparent yes" is sufficient.
adding xcompmgr worked. Conky already had own_window_transparent and I can assure you that didn't work

mudangel 10-23-2012 08:37 PM
Quote:
Originally Posted by J1NKL3 (Post 4813445)
adding xcompmgr worked. Conky already had own_window_transparent and I can assure you that didn't work
That's weird. Whatever works, I guess ;-)


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