Michael M. Moore wrote:
On Mon, 2009-05-11 at 16:21 +0200, Klistvud wrote:As opposed to KDE, Conky is a full-blown PITA to configure in Gnome.Funny, I just installed conky and it works fine (using GNOME/Metacity on Debian Lenny). I haven't rebooted or logged out of GNOME since I did it, so maybe the problems you describe will surface when I try that. The default .conkyrc was setup like so (and I'm pretty sure I didn't change any of these, except to comment out the "own_window_colour" property): # Create own window instead of using desktop (required in nautilus) own_window yes # If own_window is yes, you may use type normal, desktop or override own_window_type normal # Use pseudo transparency with own_window? own_window_transparent yes # If own_window_transparent is set to no, you can set the background colour here #own_window_colour hotpink # If own_window is yes, these window manager hints may be used own_window_hints undecorated,below,sticky,skip_taskbar,skip_pager # Use double buffering (reduces flicker, may not work for everyone) double_buffer yes The window appears transparent, with no title bar or window decorations.
MichaelThe problems I describe are only manifest at login. I can manually start conky at a terminal just fine.
My conkyrc is given below for reference: alignment top_left background yes border_width 1 cpu_avg_samples 2 default_color white default_outline_color white default_shade_color white draw_borders no draw_graph_borders yes draw_outline no draw_shades no use_xft yes xftfont 123:size=6 gap_x 5 gap_y 60 minimum_size 250 5 maximum_width 500 net_avg_samples 2 double_buffer yes out_to_console no own_window yes # own_window_hints undecorated,below,skip_taskbar own_window_transparent yes own_window_class Conky own_window_type override stippled_borders 0 update_interval 3.0 uppercase no use_spacer left show_graph_scale no show_graph_range noThe commented line is one of the suggestions Gav made yesterday, so I tried it, but realised I didn't like the placement. But otherwise I'd say that there is a pretty decent consistency between our respective Conky(ies?) files.
Klistvud wrote:
Dne, 11. 05. 2009 16:21:05 je Klistvud napisal(a):Just an update: if you don't want conky to just "briefly appear after startup and then disappear forever", you should launch it with a line such as:bash -c "sleep 10; conky -c .my-conky-config-file"In other words, conky MUST be started AFTER Nautilus, otherwise it will just get obscured/overdrawn by Nautilus.Good Luck.
Thanks KlistvudI had used the session manager to start a new login by calling a script I had written which included the sleep option. I'm currently using Xfce4 right now and that actually fired Conky right up (!) and doesn't do any of the issues I reported from Gnome. Gnome feels like an old shoe really, so I wouldn't mind trying out your suggestion at the start up, rather than calling a script to call Conky, to see if I can get it sorted.
It may well be a case of systematically commenting out suspect lines until something works. It may just be a Nautilus issue. I'll post back later with any discoveries. Who knows, when I go back perhaps the other problem to do with the mouse and accessing properties of files via > right click > open properties may also be fixed too. Perhaps Nautilus is volatile at present.
AG