Make conky window movable

jrtayloriv · 12-22-2006, 04:07 AM

How can I make it where the conky display is movable like a normal desktop window? i.e. i want to drag and drop it in different spots on desktop...

thanks,
jrtayloriv

Simon Bridge · 12-22-2006, 05:04 AM

http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/conky-howto.xml

charle97 · 12-22-2006, 12:09 PM

set the own_window variable in your .conkyrc file to yes.

jrtayloriv · 12-23-2006, 10:48 PM

I've read the conky howto, and it doesn't say anything about making the window movable.

I tried doing the own_window thing and it didn't work, still stuck in the bottom left corner.

--jrtayloriv

Simon Bridge · 12-24-2006, 03:25 AM

http://conky.sourceforge.net/faq.html (linked from the gentoo howto)

Quote:

Conky can run in windowed mode, meaning that instead of drawing the the root window it draws to it's own window. You can move this window around and resize it by right-clicking or left-clicking on the window while holding down the Alt key.

In windowed mode - did you hold down the <alt> key?