I use the cupertino interface. Whenever I start up conky, whether through the command line, alt+f2, or conky-manager, it will break my shortcuts to the brisk menu and guake terminal until I pull up a window.
Take a look here and see if this might help -
Changing my window type to ‘override’ seems to do it, but it also places it on top of all windows. Any way I can have that setting on but have it be behind everything?
Conky is experiment after experiment. Here is part of a conky that has my window types -
own_window = true,
own_window_transparent = true,
own_window_type = 'normal',
own_window_hints = 'undecorated,below,sticky,skip_taskbar,skip_pager',
All my conkys are behind all my windows. Good luck J.
Edit: And this may also help -
-## Daemonize Conky, aka 'fork to background'.
--#
background = true,nope, nothing works… sucks, because everything looks way better with conky.
Conky can be quite complicated, although your problem may also be simple to solve. For a lot more information, please check out this lengthy ubuntuforums conky thread -
Try changing the Xwindow type with devilspie.
- Install devilspie
sudo apt update && sudo apt install devilspie -y- Create the configuration file in your home folder /home/YOUR_USERNAME/.devilspie/conky.ds
You will need to create the folder .devilspie if it doesn’t exist. Paste next in the conky.ds file:
(if
(matches (window_class) "Conky")
(wintype "toolbar")
)
Save and close text editor.
- Start conky
- Test your devilspe configuration
devilspie -aDevilspie runs as a daemon.
- If it’s all ok you need to start devilspie on boot with the graphical session. You can do that if you create a desktop file
/home/USERNAME/.config/autostart/devilspie.desktop
[Desktop Entry]
Name="devilspie"
GenericName="devilspie"
Comment="is this necesery?"
Exec=/usr/bin/devilspie
Terminal=false
Type=Application
X-Gnome-Autostart=true
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Nope. Damn, this is getting really frustrating…
Please provide some more information about your problem.
Which version of Ubuntu MATE are you using?
Perhaps you can post your conky here and we’ll see if someone can help you. Good luck jupitteer.
MATE version 1.18.0+1. This is my conky:
background yes
use_xft yes
xftfont 123:size=8
xftalpha 0.1
update_interval 1
total_run_times 0
own_window yes
own_window_type override
own_window_transparent yes
own_window_hints undecorated,below,sticky,skip_taskbar,skip_pager
own_window_colour 000000
own_window_argb_visual yes
own_window_argb_value 0
own_window_class Conky
double_buffer yes
#minimum_size 250 5
#maximum_width 500
draw_shades no
draw_outline no
draw_borders no
draw_graph_borders no
default_color white
default_shade_color red
default_outline_color green
alignment top_left
gap_x 420
gap_y 20
no_buffers yes
uppercase no
cpu_avg_samples 2
net_avg_samples 1
override_utf8_locale yes
use_spacer yes
minimum_size 0 0
TEXT
${voffset 10}${color EAEAEA}${font GE Inspira:pixelsize=120}${time %I:%M}${font}${voffset -84}${offset 10}${color FF01FF}${font GE Inspira:pixelsize=42}${time %d} ${voffset -15}${color EAEAEA}${font GE Inspira:pixelsize=22}${time %B} ${time %Y}${font}${voffset 24}${font GE Inspira:pixelsize=58}${offset -148}${time %A}${font}
${voffset 1}${offset 12}${font Ubuntu:pixelsize=12}${color FF01FF}HD ${offset 9}$color${fs_free /} / ${fs_size /}${offset 30}${color FF01FF}RAM ${offset 9}$color$mem / $memmax${offset 30}${color FF01FF}CPU ${offset 9}$color${cpu cpu0}%
Are you running MATE 16.04, 17.04 or 17.10? Or even MATE 18.04?
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I am running MATE 17.10.
I’ll boot into 17.10 this evening and see what I can find out.
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I'll get back to you within a day. I've got your conky showing but not all is well. See this screenshot -
Your conky and one of mine. I'll see what I can find.
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I've gotten your conky to display better -
but have not seen difficulties in using brisk or guake. I'm unfamiliar using the cupertino desktop interface and use mate-terminal instead of guake normally so your mileage will vary.
I launched your conky (along with one of mine) using the
#!/bin/bash
sleep 6 && conky -c ~/.conky/.conkyrc_test
sleep 1 && conky -c ~/.conky/.conkyrc_sys
command. Yours is the .conkyrc_test file. And here are the changes I made in your conky noted in various comments -
background yes
use_xft yes
xftfont 123:size=8
xftalpha 0.1
update_interval 1
total_run_times 0
own_window yes
own_window_type normal # background is now transparent instead of black.
own_window_transparent yes
own_window_hints undecorated,below,sticky,skip_taskbar,skip_pager
own_window_color 000000 # changed spelling of 'colour' to match other spellings
own_window_argb_visual yes
own_window_argb_value 0
own_window_class Conky
double_buffer yes
minimum_size 250 0 # uncommented
maximum_width 560 # uncommented and increased by 60
draw_shades no
draw_outline no
draw_borders no
draw_graph_borders no
default_color white
default_shade_color red
default_outline_color green
alignment top_left
gap_x 420
gap_y 20
no_buffers yes
uppercase no
cpu_avg_samples 2
net_avg_samples 1
override_utf8_locale yes
use_spacer yes
minimum_size 0 0
TEXT
${voffset 0}${color EAEAEA}${font GE Inspira:pixelsize=120}${time %I:%M}${font}${voffset -84}${offset 10}${color FF01FF}${font GE Inspira:pixelsize=42}${time %d} ${voffset -15}${color EAEAEA}${font GE Inspira:pixelsize=22}${time %B} ${time %Y}${font}${voffset 24}${font GE Inspira:pixelsize=58}${offset -148}${time %A}${font}
${voffset 45}${offset 12}${font Ubuntu:pixelsize=12}${color FF01FF}HD ${offset 9}$color${fs_free /} / ${fs_size /}${offset 30}${color FF01FF}RAM ${offset 9}$color$mem / $memmax${offset 30}${color FF01FF}CPU ${offset 9}$color${cpu cpu0}%
# changed 1st voffset (line 39) from 10 to 0, 2nd (line 40) from 1 to 45. These changes allow the entire conky to display.
Sorry that I couldn't be of more help. Good luck @jupitteer.
Unfortunately, this didn’t work either. I don’t know why mate is doing this. I’ll probably just not use conky until an update hopefully fixes it on mate. Thank you for all the help, though!