[SOLVED] Conky configuration

Hasek39 · 11-11-2018, 09:19 AM

Hi folks,

I tried conky yesterday and have two issues with it. My DE is KDE 4.

1. I added conky to KDE autostart with 5 seconds load (sleep 5 && conky) and each time after starting the DE font looks like shit, namely, some characters are heavily overlapped with the others. Attached is screenshot, please take a look. An interesting thing is that after manual conky restart that problem never occurs. What is the reason and how can I fix it permanently from the autostart?

2. conky disappears after tapping anywhere on desktop. I want it to stay all the time (on the desktop wallpaper, not above all windows obviously), no matter what I'm doing.

Here is my current .conkyrc file:

Code:

alignment top_right
background no
border_width 1
cpu_avg_samples 2
double_buffer yes
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 DejaVu Sans Mono:size=11
gap_x 5
gap_y 30
minimum_size 15 15
no_buffers yes
out_to_console no
out_to_stderr no
extra_newline no
own_window yes
own_window_type desktop
own_window_class conky
own_window_argb_visual yes
own_window_argb_value 0
own_window_transparent yes
stippled_borders 0
update_interval 1.0
uppercase no
use_spacer none
show_graph_scale no
show_graph_range no

TEXT
${scroll 43 $nodename - $sysname $kernel on $machine | }
$hr
${color white}Uptime:$color $uptime
Frequency (in GHz)
${color white}CPU1:$color ${freq_g 1} ${color white}CPU2:$color ${freq_g 2} ${color white}CPU3:$color ${freq_g 3} ${color white}CPU4:$color ${freq_g 4}
${color white}CPU Usage
CPU1:$color ${cpu cpu1}% CPU2:$color ${cpu cpu2}% CPU3:$color ${cpu cpu3}% CPU4:$color ${cpu cpu4}%
${color white}Swap Usage:$color $swap/$swapmax - $swapperc% ${swapbar 4}
${color white}RAM Usage:$color $mem/$memmax - $memperc% ${membar 4}
${color white}Processes:$color $processes  ${color white}Running:$color $running_processes
$hr
${color white}File systems
/ $color${fs_used /}/${fs_size /} ${fs_bar 6 /}
/usr/local $color${fs_used /usr/local}/${fs_size /usr/local} ${fs_bar 6 /usr/local}
/home $color${fs_used /home}/${fs_size /home} ${fs_bar 6 /home}
$hr
Battery: $battery_percent $battery_bar
$hr
${color white}Name              PID   CPU%   MEM%
${color white}${top name 1} ${top pid 1} ${top cpu 1} ${top mem 1}
${color white}${top name 2} ${top pid 2} ${top cpu 2} ${top mem 2}
${color white}${top name 3} ${top pid 3} ${top cpu 3} ${top mem 3}
${color white}${top name 4} ${top pid 4} ${top cpu 4} ${top mem 4}

ondoho · 11-11-2018, 10:07 AM

yes, that looks horrible.
i have seen this before with conky, it's basically overwriting its own output.
but it could also be the kde desktop manager doing that, idk.

the second thing definitely has to do with the desktop manager (KDE).

all you can do is play with conky config settings, and possibly also KDE's settings.

you need to look at the own_window_... config options mostly, and play with those.

Code:

man conky

all in all, conky doesn't play too well with desktop managers.

Hasek39 · 11-11-2018, 11:21 AM

I got it finally...

1. The issue was that I not only made a symlink to conky in autostart, but also put here shell script that started it after 5 seconds delay -- so I had two instances of conky running simultaneously.

2. "own_window_type dock" and "own_window_hints below" in .conkyrc fixed it.

I also found that conky appears only on one of virtual desktops, but I wanted to have it everywhere, so I used KDE GUI to configure it on all desktops: System Settings / Window Behavior / Window Rules / Size & Position tab.