This is my Slackware desktop...

Slackware-Spain · 10-25-2020, 01:06 PM

Thanks for your comments, regarding transparency, I see it perfect .. !!

Cabbie001 · 10-25-2020, 01:39 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Gerard Lally

Openbox (and IceWM) is an excellent WM. Does anyone know if it works well with these new high-resolution monitors? I don't have one yet but 4k looks to be the way things are going.

I cannot say for sure about those newer monitors, but here is IceWM running on Slackware64 displayed on an LG 22" monitor. The conky system monitor is in transparent mode, and I would like to mention that on my system the critical line in .conkyrc to make that happen is:
"own_window no".
Unless that is set to NO, the line "own_window_transparent yes" will not result in transparency. If "own_window" is set to YES it creates a solid window which color can be modified, but no transparency. This may differ on other systems, and I mention it because other discussions I've seen on this issue spoke of other settings, but not this one.

Cheers to all.

enorbet · 10-25-2020, 05:52 PM

Hi Cabbie
Running Plasma 5 is opposite. If I set "own_window no" my screen goes all black except for the panel bar. It appears conky also crashes so changing back to "yes" is not enough. I have to restart conky... at least on Plasma 5 with KWin compositing.

FWIW this is my version of that section which does have perfect transparency, although some change, very possibly one I made, resulted in Alt-Left Mouse Drag no longer moving it around.

Code:

   # Create own window instead of using desktop (required in nautilus)
own_window yes
own_window_type normal
own_window_transparent yes
own_window_hints undecorated,below,skip_taskbar
background no
own_window_argb_visual yes
own_window_argb_value 85 ##decrease for darker
maximum_width 720

Cabbie001 · 10-25-2020, 08:09 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by enorbet

Hi Cabbie
Running Plasma 5 is opposite. If I set "own_window no" my screen goes all black except for the panel bar. It appears conky also crashes so changing back to "yes" is not enough. I have to restart conky... at least on Plasma 5 with KWin compositing.

FWIW this is my version of that section which does have perfect transparency, although some change, very possibly one I made, resulted in Alt-Left Mouse Drag no longer moving it around.

Code:

   # Create own window instead of using desktop (required in nautilus)
own_window yes
own_window_type normal
own_window_transparent yes
own_window_hints undecorated,below,skip_taskbar
background no
own_window_argb_visual yes
own_window_argb_value 85 ##decrease for darker
maximum_width 720

Hi enorbet,

That's interesting because I have "own_window no" and "background yes", just the opposite to yours.
I guess it all depends what you're running. Pays to keep notes over time, eh?
Have a good one.

SCerovec · 10-26-2020, 06:28 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by jr_bob_dobbs

Blackbox in Slackware 64 -current.

click

Running xsnow.

Would You kindly put forth the blackbox theme file?

I might further investigate turning to gray - it is that much that i like it

enorbet · 10-26-2020, 11:33 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Cabbie001

Hi enorbet,

That's interesting because I have "own_window no" and "background yes", just the opposite to yours.
I guess it all depends what you're running. Pays to keep notes over time, eh?
Have a good one.

That IS interesting! I tried switching both and there is some difference. After the screen goes black, in about a minute the desktop comes back but conky has crashed. When I try to restart conky (from cli so I can see errors) I get

Code:

 conky: drawing to double buffer
conky: forked to background, pid is 9577
enorbet@homebase20:~$
X Error of failed request:  BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes)
  Major opcode of failed request:  130 (MIT-SHM)
  Minor opcode of failed request:  3 (X_ShmPutImage)
  Serial number of failed request:  442
  Current serial number in output stream:  443

When I revert to my normal conky launches fine, without screen ever going black, and if I do it from CLI it launches at "conky: drawing to double buffer".

I guess I'm just too newb at LUA to figure out why.

Bindestreck · 10-26-2020, 01:27 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by enorbet

That IS interesting! I tried switching both and there is some difference. After the screen goes black, in about a minute the desktop comes back but conky has crashed. When I try to restart conky (from cli so I can see errors) I get

Code:

 conky: drawing to double buffer
conky: forked to background, pid is 9577
enorbet@homebase20:~$
X Error of failed request:  BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes)
  Major opcode of failed request:  130 (MIT-SHM)
  Minor opcode of failed request:  3 (X_ShmPutImage)
  Serial number of failed request:  442
  Current serial number in output stream:  443

When I revert to my normal conky launches fine, without screen ever going black, and if I do it from CLI it launches at "conky: drawing to double buffer".

I guess I'm just too newb at LUA to figure out why.

Hi, how does your whole conky look like?

Cabbie001 · 10-26-2020, 01:58 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by enorbet

That IS interesting! I tried switching both and there is some difference. After the screen goes black, in about a minute the desktop comes back but conky has crashed. When I try to restart conky (from cli so I can see errors) I get

Code:

 conky: drawing to double buffer
conky: forked to background, pid is 9577
enorbet@homebase20:~$
X Error of failed request:  BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes)
  Major opcode of failed request:  130 (MIT-SHM)
  Minor opcode of failed request:  3 (X_ShmPutImage)
  Serial number of failed request:  442
  Current serial number in output stream:  443

When I revert to my normal conky launches fine, without screen ever going black, and if I do it from CLI it launches at "conky: drawing to double buffer".

I guess I'm just too newb at LUA to figure out why.

Hi enorbet,
So, thing is our .conkyrc files are different in many more ways than just those two lines. For example your "maximum width" is set at 700 where mine is only 400. Still, all works for you when you change just the two... so I can't explain it. However just for comparison you can examine the conkyrc file I'm attaching. As you will see from the comment section it is adapted from "Neon Cipher" who also modified the original from # Copyright (c) 2004, Hannu Saransaari and Lauri Hakkarainen. But it's GPL so we are free to distribute/modify.

enorbet · 10-27-2020, 01:53 AM

ping Cabby and Bindestreck

It's linked a page back but here it is again https://i.imgur.com/ODTykYb.png

BTW I don't know if it is nvidia drivers but conky looks the same in Fluxbox and Xfce as it does in Plasma. There are some sort of oddities because I had to set width to 700 or fonts would drift off the right edge, which makes no sense to me whatsoever. I just played until it looked right.

Bindestreck · 10-27-2020, 05:36 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by enorbet

ping Cabby and Bindestreck

It's linked a page back but here it is again https://i.imgur.com/ODTykYb.png

BTW I don't know if it is nvidia drivers but conky looks the same in Fluxbox and Xfce as it does in Plasma. There are some sort of oddities because I had to set width to 700 or fonts would drift off the right edge, which makes no sense to me whatsoever. I just played until it looked right.

Hi, I meant I need to see your conkyrc.

enorbet · 10-27-2020, 09:03 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Bindestreck

Hi, I meant I need to see your conkyrc.

OOps!

Code:

 # Based on conky-jc and the default .conkyrc.
# INCLUDES:
# - tail of /var/log/messages
# - netstat connections to your computer
#
# -- Pengo (conky@pengo.us)
#
# Create own window instead of using desktop (required in nautilus)
own_window yes
own_window_type normal
own_window_transparent yes
own_window_hints undecorated,below,skip_taskbar
background no
own_window_argb_visual yes
own_window_argb_value 85 ##decrease for darker
maximum_width 720

# Use double buffering (reduces flicker, may not work for everyone)
double_buffer yes

# fiddle with window
#use_spacer true
use_xft yes

# Update interval in seconds
update_interval 1.0

# Minimum size of text area
minimum_size 120 5

# Draw shades?
draw_shades yes

# Text stuff
draw_outline no # amplifies text if yes
draw_borders no

uppercase no # set to yes if you want all text to be in uppercase

# Stippled borders?
stippled_borders 8

# border margins
#border_margin 4

# border width
border_width 1

# Default colors and also border colors, grey90 == #e5e5e5
default_color white
default_shade_color black
default_outline_color white

# Text alignment, other possible values are commented
#alignment top_left
alignment top_right
#alignment bottom_left
#alignment bottom_right

# Gap between borders of screen and text
gap_x 10
gap_y 10

# stuff after 'TEXT' will be formatted on screen

override_utf8_locale no
xftfont Terminus:size=14
xftalpha 0.8
color0 orange
color2 FFA300
TEXT

${offset 380}${color steel blue}${image ~/Downloads/slackware_tux_logo.png -p 260,20 -s 100x100}$color
${offset 380}${color steel blue}${hr 2}$color
${offset 380}${color lightgrey} Asus ROG Maximus XII Hero
${offset 380}${color steel blue}${hr 2}$color
${offset 380}${color slate grey}UpTime: ${color }$uptime
${offset 380}${color slate grey}$sysname ${color }$kernel $machine
${offset 380}${color slate grey}${execi 1000 cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep 'model name' | cut -d " " -f "3-13" | sort -u}
${offset 380}${color red} CPU Frequency:${color white} $freq ${color yellow} Maximum:${color lightgreen} $freq_g
${offset 380}${color steel blue}CPU:${color } $cpu% ${color steel blue}${execi 30 sensors |grep "CPU Temperature" |cut -d " " -f6}${hr 2}$color
${offset 380}${color slate grey}${cpugraph 20,200}
${offset 400}${color red}${exec sensors | grep 'Core 0' | awk '{print $0,$1,$2,$3}'| cut -c1-24} 
${offset 410}${color red}${exec sensors | grep 'Core 1' | awk '{print $0,$1,$2,$3}'| cut -c1-24}
${offset 420}${color red}${exec sensors | grep 'Core 2' | awk '{print $0,$1,$2,$3}'| cut -c1-24}
${offset 430}${color red}${exec sensors | grep 'Core 3' | awk '{print $0,$1,$2,$3}'| cut -c1-24}
${offset 440}${color red}${exec sensors | grep 'Core 4' | awk '{print $0,$1,$2,$3}'| cut -c1-24}
${offset 450}${color red}${exec sensors | grep 'Core 5' | awk '{print $0,$1,$2,$3}'| cut -c1-24}
${offset 380}${color orange}Highest CPU:${hr 2}$color
${offset 380}${color yellow} ${top name 1}${top_mem cpu 1}
${offset 380}${color lightgrey} ${top name 2}${top cpu 2}
${offset 380}${color lightgrey} ${top name 3}${top cpu 3}
${offset 380}${color lightgrey} ${top name 4}${top cpu 4}

### GPU Temps 
###${offset 380}${color cyan}GPU Temp: ${execi 7 nvidia-settings -query gpucoretemp -t}

${offset 340}${color red}NVIDIA:${hr 2}$color
${offset 340}${color2}GPU Temp ${alignr}${color0}${nvidia temp} °C
${offset 340}${color2}Fan Speed ${alignr}${color0}${execi 5 nvidia-settings -q [fan:0]/GPUCurrentFanSpeed -t} %
${offset 340}${color2}GPU Clock ${alignr}${color0}${nvidia gpufreq} MHz
${offset 340}${color2}Mem Used ${alignr}${color0}${execi 5 nvidia-settings -q [gpu:0]/UsedDedicatedGPUMemory -t} / ${exec nvidia-settings -q [gpu:0]/TotalDedicatedGPUMemory -t} MiB
${offset 340}${image ~/NvidiaGF.png -p 470,375 -s 76x76}

${offset 380}${color cyan}RAM Usage: ${hr 2}$color
${offset 380}${color } $memperc% $mem/$memmax
${offset 380}${color slate grey}${memgraph 20,200}

${offset 380}${color orange}Highest MEM:${hr 2}$color
${offset 380}${color yellow} ${top_mem name 1}${top_mem mem 1}
${offset 380}${color lightgrey} ${top_mem name 2}${top_mem mem 2}
${offset 380}${color lightgrey} ${top_mem name 3}${top_mem mem 3}
${offset 380}${color lightgrey} ${top_mem name 4}${top_mem mem 4}
${offset 380}${color steel blue}Disks: ${hr 2}$color
${offset 380}${color slate grey}SWAP: ${color }$swapperc% $swap/$swapmax
${offset 380}${color lightgrey}${swapbar 2,100}
${offset 380}${color slate grey}ROOT: ${color }${fs_free /}/${fs_size /}
${offset 380}${color lightgrey}${fs_bar 2,100 /}
${offset 380}${color steel blue}NETWORK: ${hr 2}$color
${offset 380}${color slate grey}IP: ${addr eth1}
${offset 380}${color}Up: ${color }${upspeed eth1} k/s
${offset 380}${color slate grey}${upspeedgraph eth1 20,200}
${offset 380}${color}Down: ${color }${downspeed eth1}k/s${color}
${offset 380}${color slate grey}${downspeedgraph eth1 20,200}
${offset 280}${color steel blue}${hr 2}$color
${offset 280}${color lightblue}Port(s)${offset 240}Connections:
${offset 280}${color lightgrey} ALL: ${offset 280}${tcp_portmon 1 65535 count}
${offset 280}${color lightgrey} mpd: ${offset 275}${tcp_portmon 6600 6600 count}
${offset 280}${color lightgrey} del 1 - 1024: ${offset 236}${tcp_portmon 1 1024 count}
${offset 280}${color lightgrey} del 1025 - 65535: ${offset 208}${tcp_portmon 1024 65535 count}
${offset 280}${color steel blue}${hr 2}$color

### Logins Monitor
${offset 380}${color orange}LOGINS:${hr 2}$color 
${offset 280}${color yellow}${user_names}${hr 2}$color

Bindestreck · 10-27-2020, 11:08 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by enorbet

OOps!

Code:

 # Based on conky-jc and the default .conkyrc.
# INCLUDES:
# - tail of /var/log/messages
# - netstat connections to your computer
#
# -- Pengo (conky@pengo.us)
#
# Create own window instead of using desktop (required in nautilus)
own_window yes
own_window_type normal
own_window_transparent yes
own_window_hints undecorated,below,skip_taskbar
background no
own_window_argb_visual yes
own_window_argb_value 85 ##decrease for darker
maximum_width 720

# Use double buffering (reduces flicker, may not work for everyone)
double_buffer yes

# fiddle with window
#use_spacer true
use_xft yes

# Update interval in seconds
update_interval 1.0

# Minimum size of text area
minimum_size 120 5

# Draw shades?
draw_shades yes

# Text stuff
draw_outline no # amplifies text if yes
draw_borders no

uppercase no # set to yes if you want all text to be in uppercase

# Stippled borders?
stippled_borders 8

# border margins
#border_margin 4

# border width
border_width 1

# Default colors and also border colors, grey90 == #e5e5e5
default_color white
default_shade_color black
default_outline_color white

# Text alignment, other possible values are commented
#alignment top_left
alignment top_right
#alignment bottom_left
#alignment bottom_right

# Gap between borders of screen and text
gap_x 10
gap_y 10

# stuff after 'TEXT' will be formatted on screen

override_utf8_locale no
xftfont Terminus:size=14
xftalpha 0.8
color0 orange
color2 FFA300
TEXT

${offset 380}${color steel blue}${image ~/Downloads/slackware_tux_logo.png -p 260,20 -s 100x100}$color
${offset 380}${color steel blue}${hr 2}$color
${offset 380}${color lightgrey} Asus ROG Maximus XII Hero
${offset 380}${color steel blue}${hr 2}$color
${offset 380}${color slate grey}UpTime: ${color }$uptime
${offset 380}${color slate grey}$sysname ${color }$kernel $machine
${offset 380}${color slate grey}${execi 1000 cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep 'model name' | cut -d " " -f "3-13" | sort -u}
${offset 380}${color red} CPU Frequency:${color white} $freq ${color yellow} Maximum:${color lightgreen} $freq_g
${offset 380}${color steel blue}CPU:${color } $cpu% ${color steel blue}${execi 30 sensors |grep "CPU Temperature" |cut -d " " -f6}${hr 2}$color
${offset 380}${color slate grey}${cpugraph 20,200}
${offset 400}${color red}${exec sensors | grep 'Core 0' | awk '{print $0,$1,$2,$3}'| cut -c1-24} 
${offset 410}${color red}${exec sensors | grep 'Core 1' | awk '{print $0,$1,$2,$3}'| cut -c1-24}
${offset 420}${color red}${exec sensors | grep 'Core 2' | awk '{print $0,$1,$2,$3}'| cut -c1-24}
${offset 430}${color red}${exec sensors | grep 'Core 3' | awk '{print $0,$1,$2,$3}'| cut -c1-24}
${offset 440}${color red}${exec sensors | grep 'Core 4' | awk '{print $0,$1,$2,$3}'| cut -c1-24}
${offset 450}${color red}${exec sensors | grep 'Core 5' | awk '{print $0,$1,$2,$3}'| cut -c1-24}
${offset 380}${color orange}Highest CPU:${hr 2}$color
${offset 380}${color yellow} ${top name 1}${top_mem cpu 1}
${offset 380}${color lightgrey} ${top name 2}${top cpu 2}
${offset 380}${color lightgrey} ${top name 3}${top cpu 3}
${offset 380}${color lightgrey} ${top name 4}${top cpu 4}

### GPU Temps 
###${offset 380}${color cyan}GPU Temp: ${execi 7 nvidia-settings -query gpucoretemp -t}

${offset 340}${color red}NVIDIA:${hr 2}$color
${offset 340}${color2}GPU Temp ${alignr}${color0}${nvidia temp} °C
${offset 340}${color2}Fan Speed ${alignr}${color0}${execi 5 nvidia-settings -q [fan:0]/GPUCurrentFanSpeed -t} %
${offset 340}${color2}GPU Clock ${alignr}${color0}${nvidia gpufreq} MHz
${offset 340}${color2}Mem Used ${alignr}${color0}${execi 5 nvidia-settings -q [gpu:0]/UsedDedicatedGPUMemory -t} / ${exec nvidia-settings -q [gpu:0]/TotalDedicatedGPUMemory -t} MiB
${offset 340}${image ~/NvidiaGF.png -p 470,375 -s 76x76}

${offset 380}${color cyan}RAM Usage: ${hr 2}$color
${offset 380}${color } $memperc% $mem/$memmax
${offset 380}${color slate grey}${memgraph 20,200}

${offset 380}${color orange}Highest MEM:${hr 2}$color
${offset 380}${color yellow} ${top_mem name 1}${top_mem mem 1}
${offset 380}${color lightgrey} ${top_mem name 2}${top_mem mem 2}
${offset 380}${color lightgrey} ${top_mem name 3}${top_mem mem 3}
${offset 380}${color lightgrey} ${top_mem name 4}${top_mem mem 4}
${offset 380}${color steel blue}Disks: ${hr 2}$color
${offset 380}${color slate grey}SWAP: ${color }$swapperc% $swap/$swapmax
${offset 380}${color lightgrey}${swapbar 2,100}
${offset 380}${color slate grey}ROOT: ${color }${fs_free /}/${fs_size /}
${offset 380}${color lightgrey}${fs_bar 2,100 /}
${offset 380}${color steel blue}NETWORK: ${hr 2}$color
${offset 380}${color slate grey}IP: ${addr eth1}
${offset 380}${color}Up: ${color }${upspeed eth1} k/s
${offset 380}${color slate grey}${upspeedgraph eth1 20,200}
${offset 380}${color}Down: ${color }${downspeed eth1}k/s${color}
${offset 380}${color slate grey}${downspeedgraph eth1 20,200}
${offset 280}${color steel blue}${hr 2}$color
${offset 280}${color lightblue}Port(s)${offset 240}Connections:
${offset 280}${color lightgrey} ALL: ${offset 280}${tcp_portmon 1 65535 count}
${offset 280}${color lightgrey} mpd: ${offset 275}${tcp_portmon 6600 6600 count}
${offset 280}${color lightgrey} del 1 - 1024: ${offset 236}${tcp_portmon 1 1024 count}
${offset 280}${color lightgrey} del 1025 - 65535: ${offset 208}${tcp_portmon 1024 65535 count}
${offset 280}${color steel blue}${hr 2}$color

### Logins Monitor
${offset 380}${color orange}LOGINS:${hr 2}$color 
${offset 280}${color yellow}${user_names}${hr 2}$color

Oh... you are using the old config which is deprecated years ago...

Are you up for an upgrade (1.10.8)? If so, I can try convert it to the newest one and try it out.

Cabbie001 · 10-27-2020, 01:29 PM

[QUOTE=enorbet;6179295]OOps!

..........

${offset 380}${color slate grey}${execi 1000 cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep 'model name' | cut -d " " -f "3-13" | sort -u}
${offset 380}${color red} CPU Frequency:${color white} $freq ${color yellow} Maximum:${color lightgreen} $freq_g
${offset 380}${color steel blue}CPU:${color } $cpu% ${color steel blue}${execi 30 sensors |grep "CPU Temperature" |cut -d " " -f6}${hr 2}$color
${offset 380}${color slate grey}${cpugraph 20,200}
${offset 400}${color red}${exec sensors | grep 'Core 0' | awk '{print $0,$1,$2,$3}'| cut -c1-24}
${offset 410}${color red}${exec sensors | grep 'Core 1' | awk '{print $0,$1,$2,$3}'| cut -c1-24}
${offset 420}${color red}${exec sensors | grep 'Core 2' | awk '{print $0,$1,$2,$3}'| cut -c1-24}
${offset 430}${color red}${exec sensors | grep 'Core 3' | awk '{print $0,$1,$2,$3}'| cut -c1-24}
${offset 440}${color red}${exec sensors | grep 'Core 4' | awk '{print $0,$1,$2,$3}'| cut -c1-24}
${offset 450}${color red}${exec sensors | grep 'Core 5' | awk '{print $0,$1,$2,$3}'| cut -c1-24}

........

Hey! as an aside, thank you for introducing me to the "cut" command! (in your conkyrc)
I see it does things I thought only awk could do. Very handy for scripts.
Suppose this is something everybody else already knew ... lol
Cheers

lonestar_italy · 10-27-2020, 06:56 PM

Just a simple plasma desktop...

enorbet · 10-27-2020, 07:06 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Bindestreck

Oh... you are using the old config which is deprecated years ago...

Are you up for an upgrade (1.10.8)? If so, I can try convert it to the newest one and try it out.

I've rarely been a "if it ain't broke don't fix it" guy. I'm a tinkerer so yeah I'm game especially since I am actually using conky v 1.10.8. Odd the old config works at all!