KDE 4.2 & Conky

[v3trae]

I have a conky script i got off of a deviantart posting that i like, but i can't get it to be truly transparent, it shows a portion of the original makers desktop as a background.

I am using the following config file.

0000644000175000017500000000434510644522536013116 0ustar johanjohanbackground no
font Sans:size=10                                
#xftfont Sans:size=10                              
background yes                                  
use_xft yes                                   
xftalpha 0.9                                   
update_interval 1.0                               
total_run_times 0                                
own_window yes                                  
own_window_type normal                              
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 yes                                 
draw_outline no                                 
draw_borders no                                 
draw_graph_borders yes                              
default_color white                               
default_shade_color black                            
default_outline_color green                           
alignment bottom_right                              
gap_x 12                                     
gap_y 35                                     
no_buffers yes                                  
uppercase no                                   
cpu_avg_samples 2                                
override_utf8_locale no                             
uppercase yes # set to yes if you want all text to be in uppercase        

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

Hostname: $alignr$nodename
Kernel: $alignr$kernel  
Uptime: $alignr$uptime  
Temp: ${alignr}${acpitemp}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}     
CPU3 ${alignr}${cpu cpu3}%
${cpubar 4 cpu3}
CPU4 ${alignr}${cpu cpu4}%
${cpubar 4 cpu4}

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 white}Filesystem ${hr 1}${color}

Root: ${alignr}${fs_free /} / ${fs_size /}
${fs_bar 4 /}
Storage: ${alignr}${fs_free /mnt/Storage} / ${fs_size /mnt/Storage}
${fs_bar 4 /mnt/Storage}

${color white}NETWORK ${hr 1}${color}

Down ${downspeed ath0} k/s ${alignr}Up ${upspeed ath0} k/s
${downspeedgraph ath0 25,107} ${alignr}${upspeedgraph ath0 25,107}
Total ${totaldown ath0} ${alignr}Total ${totalup ath0}

conkyrc/weather.xslt0000644000175000017500000000410610640555256014072 0ustar johanjohan<!--
conkyrc/weather.sh0000744000175000017500000000265710640555110013511 0ustar johanjohan#!/bin/sh

And after reading up on the subject i was told to use this startup script to get it to fork correctly.

#!/bin/bash
feh --bg-scale "`grep 'wallpaper=' ~/.kde/share/config/plasma-appletsrc | tail --bytes=+11`"
conky -c .conkyrc/.conkyrc1 &
while inotifywait ~/.kde/share/config/plasma-appletsrc; do
feh --bg-scale "`grep 'wallpaper=' ~/.kde/share/config/plasma-appletsrc | tail --bytes=+11`"
done

but i'm still getting the following result... (http://www.v3trae.net/linux/conky.jpg)
[img width=114 height=400]http://www.v3trae.net/linux/conky.jpg[/img]

Maybe i'm missing a stupid line in the config or something, Can anyone help me?

Thank you ahead of time =)

[HavocXphere]

Re: KDE 4.2 & Conky

Have a look over here:
http://kubuntuforums.net/forums/inde...opic=3100161.0
It'll point you in the right direction and I did *sortof* manage to fix the transparency...but its a bit flakey. After a few hours I just installed
Superkaramba +Crystal Monitor.

[v3trae]

Re: KDE 4.2 & Conky

How frustrating, i can't even get the feh script to work =( Oh well. Thanks for the information man =D

[Mythos]

Re: KDE 4.2 & Conky

I'm not sure if you are still having problems, but here is what I did - no need to create a script.

I placed the following section of text as the last line in my .conkyrc file.

${texeci 1000 feh --bg-scale "path/to/background/image"}