[SOLVED] conky question

SeRi@lDiE · 04-22-2011, 05:21 AM

Is there a way to tell conky on which display to start. I have dual twin monitor setup and its starting on my secondary monitor.

Thank You!

Perceptor · 04-22-2011, 06:27 AM

Set gap_x in conkyrc to value greater than the horizontal resolution of your primary monitor.

SeRi@lDiE · 04-23-2011, 12:06 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Perceptor

Set gap_x in conkyrc to value greater than the horizontal resolution of your primary monitor.

Thanks for the reply. It almost worked. I am using feh for setting the background image and feh is seen my desktop as one huge wall paper and is not setting my image right.
Any ideas?

I am using kde.

TIA.

SeRi@lDiE · 04-23-2011, 01:57 PM

Any body?

SeRi@lDiE · 04-24-2011, 03:35 PM

SeRi@lDiE · 04-26-2011, 06:01 PM

wow no body?

Daedra · 04-26-2011, 10:48 PM

Just out of curiosity, why are you setting your wallpaper with feh and not KDE. Also have you tried setting your wallpaper with either xv or bsetbg?

kingbeowulf · 04-27-2011, 02:39 AM

I set 2 different wallpapers on my 2 CRTs (both 1280x1024, Nvidia Twinview for a 2560x1024 screen) via Xfce. I set conky to display on the lower left corner via

Code:

alignment bottom_right
gap_x 5
gap_y 60

SeRi@lDiE · 04-27-2011, 12:01 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Daedra

Just out of curiosity, why are you setting your wallpaper with feh and not KDE. Also have you tried setting your wallpaper with either xv or bsetbg?

Daedra,

Thanks for the response. I am using feh for conky background... not my desktop. I do use kde for my wall papers... and thats my issue that feh is setting the background in conky way to big and it does not align.

Daedra · 04-27-2011, 01:57 PM

Ah I see,

Conky now supports real transparency, try adding the line.

own_window_argb_visual yes

this way you should not need to use the feh method to make your conky transparent. However I have had problems with this option using kwin in KDE. But give it a try.

SeRi@lDiE · 04-27-2011, 07:59 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Daedra

Ah I see,

Conky now supports real transparency, try adding the line.

own_window_argb_visual yes

this way you should not need to use the feh method to make your conky transparent. However I have had problems with this option using kwin in KDE. But give it a try.

Holy crap! Last time I try to use own_window_argb_visual yes it got all kinds of screwed up. Thanks for the reminder its all working now.