topic title: 16.2 Berta Caceres conky problem
Posts: 53
roland
Joined: 27 Jun 2015
#1
16.2 Berta Caceres 64b updated. using space-iceWM, spaceFM, chromium . Why can I only see conky on one of the four desktops I am using? If I get a slowdown or lockup with Chromium I want to see the up and down comms. traffic and disk i/o, but when I select an unused desktop it isn't there, it's only under the Chromium window which I can't move as it's just monopolised my PC. I'm waiting for more memory to arrive which I know is necessary for Chromium, just trying to get by until then. The taskbar window monitor is too small to be useful in most instances.

On a related topic, I am trying to avoid using multiple tabs and windows on browsers as you recommended, and I also try to limit the objects I open during a session. However can I use multiple instances of the same browser on different desktops, or am I causing the same type of memory overload by so doing? I reasoned without detailed knowledge that by the use of multiple instances of the same browser the swap partition may be able to better handle the memory shortage?

Thanks in advance and best wishes

Roland
Posts: 325
male
Joined: 04 Nov 2011
#2
Conky appears on all desktops when you insert sticky

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own_window_hints undecorated,below,skip_taskbar,skip_pager,sticky
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Posts: 4,164
rokytnji
Joined: 20 Feb 2009
#3
just trying to get by until then.
Just try typing and hitting enter key in a terminal window

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htop
or

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top
instead of using conky to

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If I get a slowdown or lockup with Chromium I want to see the up and down comms. traffic and disk i/o,
and read up on


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url was:"https://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=speedtest-cli"
linktext was:"https://packages.debian.org/search?keyw ... edtest-cli"
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url was:"https://www.howtoforge.com/tutorial/check-internet-speed-with-speedtest-cli-on-ubuntu/"
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I can't answer your conky issues. Sorry.
Posts: 53
roland
Joined: 27 Jun 2015
#4
conky was already set to sticky see below

# Create own window instead of using desktop (required in nautilus, pcmanfm and rox desktops)
own_window yes
own_window_transparent yes
own_window_hints undecorated,sticky,skip_taskbar

above is from the issue download
Posts: 1,445
skidoo
Joined: 09 Feb 2012
#5
idunno what caused your conky situation, but this may provide a fix:
edit ~/.icewm/winoptions and add a line stating
conky.Conky.allWorkspaces: 1
( hmm, in case the above doesn't work, try specifying instead all lowercase for its window classname: conky.conky.allWorkspaces )
Posts: 53
roland
Joined: 27 Jun 2015
#6
Neither of the above-mentioned fixes has worked, I tried them both separately. I should mention that I have another PC running 13.2 Luddite with Space-IceWM, SpaceFM in other words a very similar installation to the one with the conky trouble but running Iceweasel instead of Chromium, and conky appears on all 4 workspaces as expected. So this problem has appeared since 13.2. It isn't a big problem but worth finding out why. I now get conky going on workspace 4 hoping to be able to switch to it if I get trouble on other desktops, so I can see what's causing the trouble.
Posts: 125
poorguy
Joined: 11 May 2016
#7
Hey roland,

You are not alone as I only have conky on the #1 workspace and none of the others, I just figured it was designed that way and never investigated or asked why.

Htop works well although not as cool looking.

The PoorGuy __{{emoticon}}__