Conky and the plasma desktop

[NickStone]

I have a conky script running on the plasma desktop (KDE) however, whenever I click on the plasma desktop the conky display disappears. I think what it's doing is bringing the plasma desktop to the front and the conky display is "hiding" behind the desktop as when close down the conky display appears (briefly) once the desktop has closed down.

How do I display conky on the desktop without it "hiding" behind the desktop when I click on the desktop?

[lcorken]

I had that problem some time ago but can't remember what I did to fix it. Here is the settings part of my .conkyrc script that currently works OK.

alignment top_left
use_xft yes
xftfont DejaVu Sans Mono:size=12
own_window yes
own_window_type normal
own_window_argb_visual yes
own_window_argb_value 120
own_window_transparent no
own_window_colour 36a
own_window_hints undecorated,skip_taskbar,sticky
double_buffer yes
border_width 1
default_color 3f6
default_outline_color f36
default_shade_color 36f
draw_outline yes
gap_x 0
gap_y 0
minimum_size 100 100
cpu_avg_samples 2
update_interval 1.0

Ken.

[Dutchman]

Conky needs the two lines you see in lcorken's .conkyrc:

own_window yes
own_window_type normal

Without these kwin sees Conky as a background process and actually raises the wallpaper over it when you click on the desktop.

[NickStone]

Thanks Dutchman. I have those two lines in my .conkyrc file already. Contents of my .conkyrc file is below:

background no
own_window yes
own_window_type normal
own_window_argb_visual true
own_window_transparent yes
own_window_hints undecorated,below,sticky,skip_taskbar,skip_pager
double_buffer yes

[life0riley]

What happens when you set background to yes?

background yes

[Dutchman]

I've never run across that before Nick, but then I'm far from a Conky expert. Here's my entire setup, maybe there's something you'll see in it that will help.

background no
font Sans:size=8
update_interval 3.0
total_run_times 0
own_window yes
own_window_type normal
own_window_argb_visual true
own_window_transparent yes
own_window_hints undecorated,below,sticky,skip_taskbar,skip_pager
double_buffer yes
minimum_size 220 5
maximum_width 220
draw_shades no
draw_outline no
draw_borders no
draw_graph_borders yes
default_color gray
#default_shade_color black
alignment top_right
gap_x 12
gap_y 35
cpu_avg_samples 2
override_utf8_locale yes
uppercase yes # set to yes if you want all text to be in uppercase

TEXT
${color gray}SYSTEM ${hr 1}${color}

Hostname: $alignr$nodename
Kernel: $alignr$kernel
Uptime: $alignr$uptime
Temperatures: ${alignr}GPU ${nvidia temp}°C
${alignr}Core0 ${execi 5 sensors | grep "Core 0" | awk '{print $3}' | cut -c2-3}°C
${alignr}Core1 ${execi 5 sensors | grep "Core 1" | awk '{print $3}' | cut -c2-3}°C

CPU: ${alignr}${freq} MHz
Processes: ${alignr}$processes ($running_processes running)
Load: ${alignr}$loadavg

CPU1 ${alignr}${cpu cpu1}%
${cpubar 4 cpu1}
CPU2 ${alignr}${cpu cpu2}%
${cpubar 4 cpu2}

Ram ${alignr}$mem / $memmax ($memperc%)
${membar 4}
swap ${alignr}$swap / $swapmax ($swapperc%)
${swapbar 4}

Highest CPU $alignr CPU% MEM%
${top name 1}$alignr${top cpu 1}${top mem 1}
${top name 2}$alignr${top cpu 2}${top mem 2}
${top name 3}$alignr${top cpu 3}${top mem 3}

Highest MEM $alignr CPU% MEM%
${top_mem name 1}$alignr${top_mem cpu 1}${top_mem mem 1}
${top_mem name 2}$alignr${top_mem cpu 2}${top_mem mem 2}
${top_mem name 3}$alignr${top_mem cpu 3}${top_mem mem 3}

${color gray}Filesystem ${hr 1}${color}

Root: ${alignr}${fs_free /} / ${fs_size /}
${fs_bar 4 /}
Home: ${alignr}${fs_free /home} / ${fs_size /home}
${fs_bar 4 /home}

${color gray}NETWORK ${hr 1}${color}

Down ${downspeed eth0} k/s ${alignr}Up ${upspeed eth0} k/s
${downspeedgraph eth0 25,107} ${alignr}${upspeedgraph eth0 25,107}
Total ${totaldown eth0} ${alignr}Total ${totalup eth0}

life0riley, I tried the "background yes" just to see what happened, but it seemed to make no difference. Nothing changed. According to the documentation that comes with Conky, it just changes Conky to a background process if set to yes. I checked both ways in "top", and nothing changes there either, same memory, nice level, shared, just stays the same. Perhaps there's some difference when using Lua to customize it?