topic title: Solved - Conky Dissapearing
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michmanbiker
Joined: 24 May 2017
#1
Hello,
I have been enjoying my old notebook with Antix. It is fast and peppy and I can do everything i want so far (will get into networking soon).

I have a small glitch with conky disappearing from the desktop. It's no big deal I just have to put it off and then back on and it re appears but I was wondering if there was an easy fix to this minor glitch.

Thanks,

Michel
Last edited by michmanbiker on 07 Jul 2017, 13:56, edited 1 time in total.
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skidoo
Joined: 09 Feb 2012
#2
toward troubleshooting:
Which antiX version? 16.2?
Which desktop session are you using ("fluxbox" vs"rox-icewm" vs ???)
Have you modified the".conkyrc" or is conky using the stock configuration settings?
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michmanbiker
Joined: 24 May 2017
#3

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michel@antix1:~
$ cat /etc/*release
NAME="antiX"
VERSION="16.1 (Berta Cáceres)"
ASCII_VERSION="16.1 (Berta Caceres)"
ID="antix"
VERSION_ID="16.1"
PRETTY_NAME="antiX 16.1 (Berta Cáceres)"
ASCII_PRETTY_NAME="antiX 16.1 (Berta Caceres)"
ANSI_COLOR="0;34"
HOME_URL="http://antix.mepis.org/"
BUG_REPORT_URL="http://antix.freeforums.org"
PRETTY_NAME="antiX-16.1 Berta Cáceres"
DISTRIB_ID=antiX
DISTRIB_RELEASE=16.1
DISTRIB_CODENAME=jessie
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="antiX 16.1"
PRETTY_NAME="Debian GNU/Linux 9 (stretch)"
NAME="Debian GNU/Linux"
VERSION_ID="9"
VERSION="9 (stretch)"
ID=debian
HOME_URL="https://www.debian.org/"
SUPPORT_URL="https://www.debian.org/support"
BUG_REPORT_URL="https://bugs.debian.org/"
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michmanbiker
Joined: 24 May 2017
#4
I am using rox-ice wm and I did not change the conky files

Thanks,

Michel
michmanbiker
Posts: 53
michmanbiker
Joined: 24 May 2017
#5
I tried to edit the conky.conf file as suggested on ubuntu sites but to no avail. Any thoughts?

Thanks,

Michel
anticapitalista
Posts: 5,955
Site Admin
Joined: 11 Sep 2007
#6
You're using stretch repos, right?

You'll need to set up conkyrc to use lua.
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male
Joined: 04 Nov 2011
#7
easier shot in the dark ...

If their conkyrc has this section

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...
own_window yes
own_window_transparent yes
own_window_hints undecorated,below,skip_taskbar,skip_pager
...
wear them here in addition, a

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own_window_type normal
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michmanbiker
Joined: 24 May 2017
#8
If someone could translate I would appreciate it __{{emoticon}}__
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michmanbiker
Joined: 24 May 2017
#9
I found an acceptable solution. I have placed conky on desktop 2. Now when I want to look at resource use I just click on the second desktop.

Michel
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roland
Joined: 27 Jun 2015
#10
That's OK but I use all 4 workspaces I have assigned, and sometimes can't recall which one conky is on. I made the suggested changes to the conky file without success. Conky also misbehaved on 13.2 Luddite but in a different way, it would vanish but return after switching to another workspace and back.