Conky image becomes transparent with argb_visual enabled

Hi guys!
I have a question about Conky. When I enable "own_window_argb_visual" the image becomes transparent and not just the background as it should be. Is there a way to fix it? I'm using Compiz and the latest Ubuntu Mate 18.04. I post the picture which shows the issue and my conkyrc. Thank you very much in advance!

alignment top_right
background yes
cpu_avg_samples 2
default_color 000000		
default_outline_color 000000 	
default_shade_color 000000	
double_buffer yes
draw_borders no
draw_graph_borders no
draw_outline no
draw_shades no
gap_x 20
gap_y 90
max_specials 1024
max_user_text 10000
maximum_width 100
minimum_size 300 400
net_avg_samples 2
no_buffers yes
override_utf8_locale yes
own_window yes
own_window_colour 000000
own_window_hints undecorated,below,sticky,skip_taskbar,skip_pager
own_window_transparent yes
own_window_type conky
own_window_argb_visual yes
own_window_argb_value 0
pad_percents 2			
short_units yes			
stippled_borders 3
text_buffer_size 8000
total_run_times 0
update_interval 3.0
uppercase no
use_spacer right
use_xft yes
xftalpha 1

TEXT
${offset 8}${voffset 16}${font OldSansBlack:size=22}${color #232323}${time %H}${offset 12}${time %M}${font}
${font pftempestafivecondensed:size=6}        
        
                 ${color white}Cpu: $cpu%
                 Core:${hwmon 0 temp 1}°C
                 Mem: $mem 
                 Batt: ${battery_percent BAT0}%
                   

                 HOME:${fs_used_perc /home}%
                 ROOT:${fs_used_perc /root}%
                 FREE:${fs_free_perc /home}%
                 Swap:${swapperc}%
   
                 
                CPU:${top cpu 1}%
                ${top name 1}
                MEM:${top_mem mem 1}%
                ${top_mem name 1}                     
                 

                 Signal:                                                                                        
                 ${wireless_link_qual wlp3s0}% 
                 Ul:${upspeed wlp3s0}
                 Dl:${downspeed wlp3s0}
${image ~/.conky/BackPRO.png  115x63 -p -1,204}  
${image ~/.conky/BackDISK.png  115x63 -p -1,138}  
${image ~/.conky/Back.png  115x63 -p -1,6}
${image ~/.conky/BackSYS.png   115x63  -p   -1,72}
${image ~/.conky/BackNET.png  115x63 -p -1,270}

You might be better off posting your conky questions to places like these:

https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=281865

https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1771033

Good luck @Atti

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Ok, I’ll do it. Thank you :slight_smile:

Little update. I asked to ubuntuforums and they said to click at this interesting link Since I’m using Compiz I have to disable argb_visual and enable “own_window_type override” which gives me a good transparency but, unfortunately, I often have the drop shadow issue. Already tried to write “any & !(class=Conky)” in CCSM but the drop shadow reamains, and If I change “override” with others like “normal” or “desktop” I don’t like the result because there’s no total transparency. So unfortunately I can’t fix this issue but at least now I know the reason :slight_smile: