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I'm not sure what the technical term is for this, but I'd like to make it so that no windows can overlap Conky. I tried daemonizing it, but still things overlapped. so is there any way to do this?
I'm not sure what the technical term is for this, but I'd like to make it so that no windows can overlap Conky. I tried daemonizing it, but still things overlapped. so is there any way to do this?
You mean you don't want to draw a separate window, instead you want it to look like it is drawn right on the desktop wallpaper...As far as I know, it is referred to as drawing on the root window.
put this in your ~/.conkyrc
Code:
own_window no
If you trying to use conky in GNOME, you will have to use own_window yes.
You mean you don't want to draw a separate window, instead you want it to look like it is drawn right on the desktop wallpaper...As far as I know, it is referred to as drawing on the root window.
put this in your ~/.conkyrc
Code:
own_window no
If you trying to use conky in GNOME, you will have to use own_window yes.
I know how to make it "part of the background" (not sure of the correct term), i want to make it so that it's area of the screen can't be overlapped. so that i can see it when doing other things on screen.
I'd like to make it so that no windows can overlap Conky
"Conky" = Konqueror? You are running KDE?
I think what you want is for the konqueror window to be "Always on Top":
Open konqueror, Click the icon at the very top left of the konqueror window, Click "Advanced", Click "Keep above others".
Now other windows cannot hide the konqueror window.
No, Conky is NOT Konqueror. Conky is a configurable system monitor that can live directly on the desktop or in its own window. I haven't been able to find it in all distribution repositories, but Gentoo provides it via portage.
I know how to make it "part of the background" (not sure of the correct term), i want to make it so that it's area of the screen can't be overlapped. so that i can see it when doing other things on screen.
I believe you can click on title bar of conky and make it "Always on top". Not sure if there's a config option in .conkyrc to actually do this.
I believe this is what you are looking for. This will "dock" the conky window so even when other applications are maximized, conky will lay ontop of them.
# Create own window instead of using desktop (required in nautilus)
own_window yes
# If own_window is yes, you may use type normal, desktop or override
own_window_type desktop
# Use pseudo transparency with own_window?
own_window_transparent yes
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