Setting conky after installing it.
I've just installed conky (from SlackBuilds.org). It seem to be a nice and useful application.
If I type conky at CL, it starts showing a little windows on the lower left side of my screen. I was not able to find conky as a menu entry (in Kmenu). Now, I would like to setup conky to show info I want on the screen everytime I turn on my computer (as I see many people do). I will really appreciate if someone could help me doing so. Thanks in advance, Glore2002.- |
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Thanks weibullguy for your reply. After reading those documents plus this one:
http://www.linux.com/feature/136147 I've finally configured .conkyrc. Now, I would like to make conky to start when slackware starts and make it look transparent with no borders as some people do. Thanks, Glore2002.- |
Did you really look at the links I provided? Take a look at the third link again to get pseudo-transparency and no borders.
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Thanks again. Conky transparency and KDE are not very good friends as far as I can see.
If I set conky to become transparent, icons on my desktop disappear. Strange behavior. I will read the links again and I will keep trying to solve this. So, if any of you has conky working transparently with KDE and Slackware 12.1, please let me know how you did that step by step. I will appreciate it. Glore2002.- |
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I also gave up on trying to set transparency for conky. I did the same you did: Changing background color.
In order to autostart conky, I've made the following: Code:
$> cd /home/user/.kde/Autostart Thank you! Glore2002.- |
You do not need to create a shell script. What you did will work fine.
I use a script primarily because if I have my external backup drive connected, I want to display that drive's temperature too. My script runs the usual conkyrc config file to display the usual parameters, but the script manually runs a second instance of conky to display only the backup drive. Code:
if [ -n "$BACKUPDISK" ]; then |
Using .kde autostart is fine in KDE, but what about the other desktops.
isn't there a way to get them to auto start no matter which desktop you use? |
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I haven't a clue how to do similarly with the various window managers packaged with Slackware, but many Slackers here at LQ can help with that area. Quote:
As well as a common autoshutdown location too. KDE has the $HOME/.kde/shutdown directory, but I don't know whether Xfce or the window managers have anything similar. |
glore:
no matter what, conky cannot be transparent with KDE. the only way to get it to be transparent is to use multiple applications ( i think that they are referenced on the conky website) to redraw the root window with your background. Conky transparency relies on the root window which in slackware is black. |
Thanks my friends!
Very clear posts. Conclusion: Conky can't be transparent in KDE. Transparent means Black. So, best solution I've found was setting its background color to desktop color. Thank you very much, Glore2002.- |
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