[SOLVED] Conky like a taskbar : configuring.

robgeek · 06-05-2014, 09:11 PM

Hello!
I have Conky 1.9 in my system(Debian Wheezy 7.5 with OpenBox) and i would like he would not be overlaped by other apps like Firefox and others. I would like to make him like a taskbar in the top of my screen to shows me infos about my pc. So, in my conkrc i set "own_window_hints" to "above" and "own_window_type" to "normal", but take a look in the following picture. As you can see, besides my texts are not centralized i cannot see my the tabs of my Firefox!
http://postimg.org/image/isg58zpn3/

If i set "own_window_type" to "dock" or "panel" my screen is like this:
http://postimg.org/image/das1nuuub/

Here my conkyrc file:

Code:

own_window yes
own_window_colour 000000
own_window_transparent no
own_window_type normal 
own_window_hints undecorated,sticky,skip_taskbar,skip_pager,above
double_buffer yes
use_spacer right 
use_xft yes
#font snap-7
xftfont Droid Sans Mono:size=9
xftalpha 1
text_buffer_size 2048 
alignment bottom
gap_x 5
gap_y 756

# --- Colours, Sizes, Fonts & Margins --- #
update_interval 1.0
stippled_borders 0
minimum_size 1366 3
maximum_width 1366 2
border_margin 3
border_width 0 
default_color 5e7175
# --- Text --- #
draw_outline no
draw_borders no
#font -*-profont-*-*-*-11-*-*-*-*-*-*-* 
uppercase no
draw_shades no 

TEXT
${alignc}${color 739FCF}${color }Debian${color f92672}Linux${color} | ${color beed5f} Machine: ${color d3d3d3}$nodename ${color} | ${color fd971f} Uptime: ${color d3d3d3}$uptime ${color} | ${color ff669d} Kernel: ${color d3d3d3}$kernel ${color} | ${color 9e6ffe} Cpu: ${color d3d3d3}${cpu}% ${color} | ${color 00CBEE} Ram: ${color d3d3d3}${mem} ${color} | ${color 8AE234} Home: ${color e0e0e0}${font}${fs_free /home} ${color} | ${color F4CB16} Down: ${color e0e0e0} ${downspeed wlp2s0} Kb/s ${color} | ${color F74936} Up: ${color} ${color e0e0e0} ${upspeed wlp2s0} Kb/s

How can i do what i want?

Habitual · 06-06-2014, 09:27 AM

Windowism: "taskbar"
Linux: panel

That being said. What Desktop environment?

ondoho · 06-06-2014, 10:55 AM

what's wrong with the 2nd pic? looks ok to me.

conky is a strange beast, and trial and error seem to be a necessary part of customizing it.
check out the documentation:
http://conky.sourceforge.net/documentation.html
and particularly here:
http://conky.sourceforge.net/config_settings.html

rokytnji · 06-06-2014, 11:26 AM

Quote:

As you can see, besides my texts are not centralized i cannot see my the tabs of my Firefox!

Like ondoho says. Nothing wrong with resizing Firefox window also. What matters a few MM missing in top of browser window?
http://postmyimage.com/img2/207_screenshot2.jpg

http://postmyimage.com/img2/217_screenshot.jpg

robgeek · 06-06-2014, 09:39 PM

Guys, thank you for your answers. I "solved" my problem. Here what i did.
1- Changed my margins settings ~/.config/openbox/rc.xml to <top>20</top>
2- I deleted all these lines from ~/.conkyrc

Code:

own_window yes
own_window_colour 000000
own_window_transparent no
own_window_type normal 
own_window_hints undecorated,sticky,skip_taskbar,skip_pager,above

I deleted these lines because i read this in http://openbox.org/wiki/Help:Configuration

Quote:

Each tag specifies the amount of pixels to reserve at the respective edge of the screen. New windows will not be placed in those areas, and maximized windows will not cover them.

After that my Conky became transparent, i would like make his background black, but i don't know how so, until now, i let him transparent.

Now he is like this:
http://postimg.org/image/c1j4rltfn/

My ~/.conkyrc modified:
http://pastebin.com/5LmXDG14

Randicus Draco Albus · 06-06-2014, 10:13 PM

Interesting. Windows have no difficulty covering my conky. Your solution might point to the problem.

Quote:

I deleted all these lines from ~/.conkyrc

Code:

own_window yes
own_window_colour 000000
own_window_transparent no
own_window_type normal 
own_window_hints undecorated,sticky,skip_taskbar,skip_pager,above

After that my Conky became transparent

What happens if you set it to

Code:

own_window_transparent yes

?
With Wheezy I had to add two lines to my conky.conf to achieve transparency.

Code:

own_window_argb_visual yes
own_window_argb_value 0

own_window_colour 000000 is not needed. In fact, I have never seen such a set-up. I am sure some people use it, but I have not seen it. Removing that line was a good idea. Which raises the question; where did you get your Conky? From Debian's repositories?

robgeek · 06-06-2014, 11:16 PM

Quote:

What happens if you set it to

Code:

own_window_transparent yes

?

In my case, nothing. I'm not sure, but i believe all these "own_window..." settings become "avaliable" only if you set "own_window yes" first.

Quote:

where did you get your Conky? From Debian's repositories?

Yes. To install i entered with this command in terminal

Code:

aptitude install conky

Now, i would like to make his background black. If you know how to do it, please, tell me.

Randicus Draco Albus · 06-06-2014, 11:25 PM

Set

Code:

own_window_argb_value

to a high number; 500 or greater.

ondoho · 06-07-2014, 10:54 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by robgeek

Now, i would like to make his background black. If you know how to do it, please, tell me.

depends a lot on your setup, mostly whether you use compositing or not.
since you're using openbox on debian, it's not exactly out of the box.