littel Conky issue

[Teunis]

After upgrading from 15.04 to 15.10 I noticed the Area of the desktop occupied by Conky is of a different (lighter) shade, anyone else noticed this?

[life0riley]

I don't see this.

Here is my conky configuration.

background yes
use_xft yes
xftfont Sans:size=8
xftalpha 1
update_interval 5.0
total_run_times 0
own_window yes
own_window_transparent yes
own_window_type normal
own_window_argb_visual yes
own_window_hints undecorated,skip_taskbar, sticky
double_buffer yes
minimum_size 200 200
maximum_width 200
draw_shades no
draw_outline no
draw_borders no
draw_graph_borders yes
default_color white
default_shade_color black
default_outline_color white
alignment top_right
gap_x 12
gap_y 42
no_buffers yes
uppercase no
cpu_avg_samples 2
override_utf8_locale no

There are some issues with conky version 1.10.0. I found some information on the Arch Linux forums.
Problem with conky after update

I don't know how you are drawing conky to your desktop, but there might be some useful information in that post. I'm working through the syntax error the OP posted about there.

[Teunis]

I did notice.

On 14.04 to 15.04 I had to give it a few pixels offset to not overlap with my left side toolbar.
On 15.10 I had to change this number of pixels a little.

At the moment in 15.10 I use this:

# Gap between borders of screen and text

gap_x 90

gap_y 10

In 14.04 I use:

# Gap between borders of screen and text

gap_x 10

gap_y 10

[life0riley]

I resolved my syntax error. I had to take a few swings at it to get it right.

Here are a few changes that stood out to me from here.

• wrap your config section in conky.config = { ... }
• wrap your TEXT section in conky.text = [[ ... ]]
• the config options are lookup values and you need to assign the values (i.e. use "=")
• each line in the config section ends with ","
• replace "yes" and "no" with "true" and "false", resp. (without quotes)
• all values except numbers, "true" and "false" need quotes
• comments are marked with "--" instead of "#"

This was discussed on the Manjaro forum.
Topic: new Conky syntax beginning from version 1.10

The example conky.conf in Kubuntu 15.10 is found here.
/usr/share/doc/conky-all/conky.conf

After upgrading from 15.04 to 15.10 I noticed the Area of the desktop occupied by Conky is of a different (lighter) shade, anyone else noticed this?

I may have drifted off topic. Was this issue resolved?

[Teunis]

About the shade of the Conky area, in my conkyrc I found a curious line setting a background colour, I really don't know how it got there...
Commenting it out solved the issue.

# own_window_colour brown