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.
