On 17 September 2010 10:57, Philip Newborough <corenomi...@corenominal.org>wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 10:13 AM, Matt Sturdy <matt.stu...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > Hi guys, > > I recently made the switch to XFCE, and mostly it's working well. Quick, > > clean interface etc. > > The one thing I can't fix is Conky. It used to display on the nautilus > > desktop... and it still starts up with no errors... but I can't see where > it > > goes! > > starting from the command line gives > > m...@alida:~$ conky > > Conky: desktop window (1e00003) is subwindow of root window (15a) > > Conky: window type - override > > Conky: drawing to created window (0x4a00001) > > Conky: drawing to double buffer > > and my conf file is fairly standard: > > m...@alida:~$ cat .conkyrc > > > > # Create own window instead of using desktop (required in nautilus) > > own_window yes > > own_window_type override > > own_window_transparent yes > > ## apparently this is not needed in XFCE > > own_window_hints undecorated,below,sticky,skip_taskbar,skip_pager > > Hey Matt :) > > Have you tried playing around with the 'own_window' settings/values? I > use the following when running Conky in Xfce: > > own_window yes > own_window_transparent yes > own_window_type desktop > own_window_hints undecorated,below,sticky,skip_taskbar,skip_pager > > It looks like the only difference is the value given for 'own_window_type'. > > Cheers > -- Philip > > -- > ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ > Hey Philip! You're a star! Thanks, that's working perfectly now! I'd tried a few things, but hadn't hit on that... aaah, back to system monitoring bliss... :) Cheers! Matt
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