[SOLVED] Transparent conky no longer in Slackware 13.1 / KDE 4.4.3

dimm0k · 05-29-2010, 08:46 PM

In the past I've been using the work around with feh to grab a copy of the image used for the background in KDE, however with the upgrade to Slackware 13.1 / KDE 4.4.3 this no longer happens. Anyone have any suggestions?

Daedra · 05-29-2010, 09:42 PM

Conky (1.8.0) now has support for rgba (real transparency) not fake transparency (which is the feh method). The fake transparency has problems with KDE4 because of plasma desktop. To use rgba transparency add a line like this line to your config

own_window yes
own_window_transparent yes
own_window_argb_visual yes
own_window_type desktop
own_window_class conky-semi
own_window_hints undecorated,below,sticky,skip_taskbar,skip_pager

Attached is a screenshot of my desktop, see how with rgba I get proper transparency with all desktops.

dimm0k · 05-30-2010, 12:13 AM

Ahh, it works! With the old fake transparency it would be completely transparent, however with this new method you can sort of see a small degree of opacity of the conky "window". Is there any way to get rid of that?

Daedra · 05-30-2010, 12:22 AM

Not sure on that one, I don't seem to have that problem (just removed my border and checked it) can you attach your conkyrc file?

dimm0k · 05-30-2010, 12:51 AM

Sure thing!

Code:

alignment top_left
background no
border_inner_margin 8
border_width 2
color1 white
# light blue
color2 6892C6
color3 brown
color4 green
color5 pink
color6 yellow
color7 cyan
cpu_avg_samples 2
# Use double buffering (reduces flicker, may not work for everyone)
double_buffer yes
draw_borders no
draw_graph_borders yes
draw_outline no
draw_shades no
extra_newline no
# Gap between borders of screen and text
gap_x 10
gap_y 10
#maximum_width 410
#minimum_size 5 5
net_avg_samples 2
no_buffers yes
out_to_console no
out_to_stderr no
override_utf8_locale yes
own_window yes
own_window_argb_visual yes
own_window_class Conky
own_window_hints undecorated,below,sticky,skip_taskbar,skip_pager
own_window_transparent yes
show_graph_range no
show_graph_scale no
stippled_borders 4
text_buffer_size 2048
update_interval 1.0
uppercase no
# adds spaces around certain objects to stop them from moving other things around
use_spacer right
use_xft yes
xftalpha 0.8
xftfont DejaVu Sans Mono:size=8


TEXT
${color4}SYSTEM ${hr 2}
${color5}$nodename - $sysname $kernel on $machine

${color4}CPU ${hr 2}
${color1}NAME              PID          MEM%  ${alignr}CPU%
${color7}${top name 1}  ${top pid 1}      ${top mem 1}  ${alignr}${top cpu 1}${color}
${top name 2}  ${top pid 2}      ${top mem 2}  ${alignr}${top cpu 2}
${top name 3}  ${top pid 3}      ${top mem 3}  ${alignr}${top cpu 3}
${top name 4}  ${top pid 4}      ${top mem 4}  ${alignr}${top cpu 4}
${top name 5}  ${top pid 5}      ${top mem 5}  ${alignr}${top cpu 5}
${top name 6}  ${top pid 6}      ${top mem 6}  ${alignr}${top cpu 6}
${top name 7}  ${top pid 7}      ${top mem 7}  ${alignr}${top cpu 7}
${top name 8}  ${top pid 8}      ${top mem 8}  ${alignr}${top cpu 8}

${color1}Uptime:${color} $uptime ${alignr}${color1}Frequency:${color} ${freq_g}GHz / ${freq}MHz
${color1}Governor: ${color}${execi 60 cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_governor}  ${alignc -40}${color1}CPU:${color} ${acpitemp}°C${alignr}${color1}GPU: ${color}${execi 60 nvidia-settings -query GPUCoreTemp | grep Attribute | cut -c 46-48}°C
${color1}Load:${color} ${loadavg}    ${color1}Processes:${color} $processes  ${alignr}${color1}Running:${color} $running_processes
${color1}CPU Core 1:${color} ${cpu cpu1}% ${alignr}${cpubar cpu1 4,250}
${color1}CPU Core 2:${color} ${cpu cpu2}% ${alignr}${cpubar cpu2 4,250}
${color1}CPU Core 3:${color} ${cpu cpu3}% ${alignr}${cpubar cpu3 4,250}
${color1}CPU Core 4:${color} ${cpu cpu4}% ${alignr}${cpubar cpu4 4,250}
${color1}CPU Core 5:${color} ${cpu cpu5}% ${alignr}${cpubar cpu5 4,250}
${color1}CPU Core 6:${color} ${cpu cpu6}% ${alignr}${cpubar cpu6 4,250}
${color1}CPU Core 7:${color} ${cpu cpu7}% ${alignr}${cpubar cpu7 4,250}
${color1}CPU Core 8:${color} ${cpu cpu8}% ${alignr}${cpubar cpu8 4,250}
${cpugraph 000000 ffffff}

${color4}MEMORY / DISK ${hr}
${color1}RAM:${color} $memperc%  $mem / $memmax ${alignr}${membar 6,164}
${color1}swap:${color} $swapperc%  $swap / $swapmax ${alignr}${swapbar 6,164}

${color1}root:${color} ${fs_free /}free ${alignr}${fs_bar 6,232 /}
${color1}usr: ${color} ${fs_free /usr}free ${alignr}${fs_bar 6,232 /usr}
${color1}var: ${color} ${fs_free /var}free ${alignr}${fs_bar 6,232 /var}
${color1}tmp: ${color} ${fs_free /tmp}free ${alignr}${fs_bar 6,232 /tmp}
${color1}0:   ${color} ${fs_free /mnt/spares/0}free ${alignr}${fs_bar 6,232 /mnt/spares/0}
${color1}3:   ${color} ${fs_free /mnt/spares/3}free ${alignr}${fs_bar 6,232 /mnt/spares/3}
${color1}4:   ${color} ${fs_free /mnt/spares/4}free ${alignr}${fs_bar 6,232 /mnt/spares/4}
${color1}5:   ${color} ${fs_free /mnt/spares/5}free ${alignr}${fs_bar 6,232 /mnt/spares/5}
${color1}1:   ${color} ${fs_free /mnt/spares/1}free ${alignr}${fs_bar 6,232 /mnt/spares/1}
${diskiograph_read 25,170} ${alignr}${diskiograph_write 25,170}
${color1}Read: ${color}${diskio_read}${alignc -64}${color1}Write: ${color}${diskio_write}

${color4}NETWORK ${hr 2}
${color6}(Internet: ${execi 300 wget www.whatismyip.com/automation/n09230945.asp -O - -q})${alignr}(wi-fi: ${addr eth1})
${color1}Down: ${color}${downspeed eth1}k/s${alignc -64}${color1}Up: ${color}${upspeed eth1}k/s
${downspeedgraph eth1 25,170 000000 ff0000} ${alignr}${upspeedgraph eth1 25,170 000000 00ff00}
${color6}(ethernet: ${addr eth0})
${color1}Down: ${color}${downspeed eth0}k/s${alignc -64}${color1}Up: ${color}${upspeed eth0}k/s
${downspeedgraph eth0 25,170 000000 ff0000} ${alignr}${upspeedgraph eth0 25,170 000000 00ff00}${color}
${hr}
${color7}Total Down: ${color}${totaldown eth1}${alignc -74}${color7}Total Up: ${color}${totalup eth1}
${color7}Inbound: ${color}${tcp_portmon 1 32767 count}${alignc -36}${color7}Outbound: ${color}${tcp_portmon 32768 61000 count}${alignr}${color7}Total: ${color}${tcp_portmon 1 65535 count}

${color4}MISC ${hr 2}
${color1}Power: ${color}${battery}
${color1}Battery remaining: ${color}${battery_time} ${battery_bar}

Daedra · 05-30-2010, 01:03 AM

try adding the line

own_window_type desktop

dimm0k · 05-30-2010, 02:53 AM

That did it, thanks!!

dimm0k · 05-30-2010, 11:18 PM

Actually just stumbled upon another problem... if I click anywhere on the desktop, conky disappears! No way to get it back unless I modify the conky.conf file or restart conky. Any suggestions?

Daedra · 05-31-2010, 12:20 AM

yes I had this problem as well, don't ask me why this worked cause I couldn't figure it out but I changed line

own_window_type desktop

to

own_window_type normal

Then I ran it for a while then switched back to own_window_type desktop and it stopped disappearing. The reason why its disappearing is because plasma doesn't draw the wallpaper on the root window so conky is falling behind the plasma wallpaper, that is why it happens, but for some reason the above worked for me.

PenguinWearsFedora · 06-09-2010, 09:32 AM

According to man pages

"own_window_argb_visual
Boolean, use ARGB visual? ARGB can be used for real transparen-
cy, note that a composite manager is required for real trans-
parency."

So yes, you need to enable composite effects.

dimm0k · 06-09-2010, 11:31 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by PenguinWearsFedora

So yes, you need to enable composite effects.

Where would I go for this?

SqdnGuns · 06-09-2010, 01:15 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by dimm0k

Where would I go for this?

I have created an xorg.conf for my laptop so I have enabled it with this:

Code:

Section "Extensions"

    Option         "Composite"	      "Enable"

EndSection

Daedra · 06-09-2010, 03:08 PM

I forgot about this post, did you ever fix the disappearing problem?

dimm0k · 06-09-2010, 11:44 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by SqdnGuns

I have created an xorg.conf for my laptop so I have enabled it with this:

Code:

Section "Extensions"

    Option         "Composite"	      "Enable"

EndSection

Thanks for that! Apparently I left that out when I moved to Slackware 13.1... Now that I've added that in however, nothing seems different in terms of getting conky to be fully transparent. If I have own_window_type set to normal, conky is transparent however there's a level of tint/opaque in the conky window itself so it's not completely transparent. If I have it set to desktop, it is completely transparent however clicking anywhere on the desktop "covers" conky afterward.

dimm0k · 06-09-2010, 11:45 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Daedra

I forgot about this post, did you ever fix the disappearing problem?

Didn't really fix it... but I've set it back to "normal" as I would rather have it not disappear than be full transparent. Not sure what's going on...