LinuxQuestions.org - [SOLVED] Conky visual glitches under openbox

Hello,

I've been using conky for quite some time, but until recently it was just a single line of info at the top of the screen. When I added another instance with screen-high output I noticed two annoying things:

1) Conky flickers as if there is a thin stripe slowly sliding down, flickering occurs at conky's update interval (currently set to 1 second). This sort of reminds of vertical sync, though "nvidia-settings" utility shows "Sync to VBlank" checkboxes checked.

2) When any window is dragged over conky's output area, fonts become fat and ugly — like if the image was duplicated and the antialiased edges became opaque.

I wouldn't mind setting update interval to a higher value (the displayed info is just plain text memos), but the second issue prevents this, as the fonts' ugliness stays until the next time conky redraws.

Here is conky's config file:

Code:

alignment top_right

background yes

border_width 1

cpu_avg_samples 2

default_bar_size 130 5

default_color white

default_outline_color white

default_shade_color white

draw_borders no

draw_graph_borders yes

draw_outline no

draw_shades no

use_xft yes

xftfont KerkisSans-SmallCaps :size=10

gap_x 0

gap_y 50

minimum_size 300 5

maximum_width 1280

net_avg_samples 2

no_buffers yes

out_to_console no

out_to_stderr no

extra_newline no

own_window yes

own_window_class Conky

own_window_type override

own_window_argb_visual no

own_window_argb_value 200

own_window_transparent yes

stippled_borders 0

update_interval 1.0

uppercase no

use_spacer none

show_graph_scale no

show_graph_range no

Part of 'X -version' output:

Code:

X.Org X Server 1.8.0

Release Date: 2010-04-02

X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0

Build Operating System: openSUSE SUSE LINUX

Current Operating System: Linux 2.6.34.7-0.7-desktop #1 SMP PREEMPT 2010-12-13 11:13:53 +0100 x86_64

Probably relevant:

Code:

openSUSE 11.3, 

LXDE with openbox 3.4.11.2-5.3

conky 1.8.1-0.pm.7.4

I would be grateful for any suggestions on how to get rid of at least one of the issues.

Thanks in advance.