Leftwm: Conky: interesting issue.

[rigoletto-freebsd]

Hello,

I have been using this configuration for years, but when I start Conky on LeftWM it draw over every window started after it.

After several tweaks I discovered if I switch own_window_argb_visual = true, (enable true transparency) it works as expected; however, I don't use a composite and Conky have a black background .

Are you aware of anyway to make it work without enabling true transparency?

Thank you!

conky.config = {

    alignment      = 'top_right',
    background      = false,
    double_buffer       = true,

    own_window      = true,
    own_window_class    = 'conky',
    own_window_type     = 'override',
    own_window_transparent  = true,
    own_window_argb_visual  = false,

    draw_borders        = false,
    draw_graph_borders  = false,
    draw_outline        = true,
    draw_shades         = true,

    default_color       = '#f2f4f8',
    default_shade_color     = '#f2f4f8',
    default_outline_color   = '#000000',
    default_shade_color = '#f2f4f8',

    font            = 'Ohsnapu:size=8',
    use_xft         = true,
    xftalpha        = 100,

    uppercase       = false,
    format_human_readable   = true,
    short_units     = true,

    gap_x           = 7,
    gap_y           = 30,
    minimum_height      = 5,
    minimum_width       = 237,
    border_width        = 2,

    use_spacer      = 'left',

    no_buffers      = true,
    out_to_console      = false,
    out_to_stderr       = false,
    extra_newline       = false,

    cpu_avg_samples     = 2,
    net_avg_samples     = 2,
    diskio_avg_samples  = 2,
    update_interval     = 2.0,
    total_run_times     = 0

}

[AethanFoot]

Try some of these options which allows my conky to work.

own_window_type = 'dock',   
own_window_hints = 'undecorated,below,sticky,skip_taskbar,skip_pager',

Thanks.

[rigoletto-freebsd]

Unfortunately not, with this configuration Conky don't show up at all! :-)

[AethanFoot]

Heres my conky (haven't updated it in a while):

conky.config = {
    background = true,
    use_xft = true,
    font = 'MesloLGS NF:style=Bold:pixelsize=13',
    xftalpha = 0.5,
    update_interval = 1,
    total_run_times = 0,
    own_window = true,
    own_window_type = 'dock',
    own_window_hints = 'undecorated,below,sticky,skip_taskbar,skip_pager',
    own_window_argb_visual = false,
    --own_window_argb_value = 230,
    own_window_transparent = true,
    --own_window_colour = '#2d2d2d',
    double_buffer = true,
    minimum_width = 350, minimum_height = 5,
    maximum_width = 350,
    draw_shades = false,
    draw_outline = false,
    draw_borders = false,
    draw_graph_borders = false,
    default_color = '#e6e6e6',
    default_shade_color = 'red',
    default_outline_color = 'green',
    alignment = 'top_right',
    --ximerama_head = 3,
    gap_x = 1934,
    gap_y = 48,
    no_buffers = true,
    uppercase = false,
    cpu_avg_samples = 2,
    override_utf8_locale = false,
};

conky.text = [[
System Info ${hr 2}

${color #bd93f9}${uid_name 1000}$color - $sysname $kernel
${color #bd93f9}Uptime:$color $uptime ${color lightgrey}${color #bd93f9}
Load:$color $loadavg${color lightgrey}

${color #bd93f9}CPU: ${color lightgrey}${execi 10000000 lscpu | grep 'Model name' | sed -r 's/Model name:\s{1,}(.*) @ .*z\s*/\1/g' | sed -e 's/CPU//'}
Core 1: ${cpubar cpu1 6,150}$alignr ${cpu cpu1}%  ${freq_g 1}GHz
Core 2: ${cpubar cpu2 6,150}$alignr ${cpu cpu2}%  ${freq_g 2}GHz
Core 3: ${cpubar cpu3 6,150}$alignr ${cpu cpu3}%  ${freq_g 3}GHz
Core 4: ${cpubar cpu4 6,150}$alignr ${cpu cpu4}%  ${freq_g 4}GHz
Core 5: ${cpubar cpu5 6,150}$alignr ${cpu cpu5}%  ${freq_g 5}GHz
Core 6: ${cpubar cpu6 6,150}$alignr ${cpu cpu6}%  ${freq_g 6}GHz
Core 7: ${cpubar cpu7 6,150}$alignr ${cpu cpu7}%  ${freq_g 7}GHz
Core 8: ${cpubar cpu8 6,150}$alignr ${cpu cpu8}%  ${freq_g 8}GHz

CPU utilisation$alignr ${cpu cpu0}%
${cpubar cpu0}
${cpugraph ff79c6 ffb2f0}
${color #bd93f9}GPU: ${color lightgrey}${execi 10000000 nvidia-smi --query-gpu=gpu_name --format=csv,noheader} - ${execi 10000000 nvidia-smi --query-gpu=driver_version --format=csv,noheader} 
Frequency: ${nvidia gpufreq}Mhz Tempature: ${nvidia temp}C

GPU utilisation$alignr ${execp nvidia-smi --query-gpu=utilization.gpu --format=csv,noheader | sed -e 's/ %//'}%
${execbar nvidia-smi --query-gpu=utilization.gpu --format=csv,noheader | sed -e 's/ %//'}

Memory ${hr 2}

MEM $alignc $mem / $memmax $alignr $memperc%
$membar

SWAP $alignc $swap / $swapmax $alignr $swapperc%
$swapbar

Top Processes ${hr 2}
$alignr $processes processes

NAME          $alignr PID    CPU    MEM
${top name 1} $alignr ${top pid 1} ${top cpu 1} ${top mem 1}
${top name 2} $alignr ${top pid 2} ${top cpu 2} ${top mem 2}
${top name 3} $alignr ${top pid 3} ${top cpu 3} ${top mem 3}
${top name 4} $alignr ${top pid 4} ${top cpu 4} ${top mem 4}
${top name 5} $alignr ${top pid 5} ${top cpu 5} ${top mem 5}

Network ${hr 2}

Down:    ${downspeed enp5s0}
${downspeedgraph enp5s0 ff79c6 ffb2f0}
Up:          ${upspeed enp5s0}
${upspeedgraph enp5s0 ff79c6 ffb2f0}
]];

own_window_argb_visual doesn't seem to make a difference for me.

[rigoletto-freebsd]

Didn't work either. Conky not showing at all, and I'm thinking this is platform specific.

I will try to find out what is going on, and if I find I report later. For now I would close this issue.

Thank you.

[stevensonmt]

I am on Manjaro Linux and have the same issue except that I already had own_window_argb_visual = true set. Changing window type to dock does not help. Only started after last update. It is strange though. If I reload conky without reloading leftwm config conky is behind any windows already open but stays on top of any new windows. But if I reload leftwm config it's back on top. I tried moving the command to launch conky to the end of my up script and even added a sleep before loading conky. That made no difference.

The behavior has been very inconsistent. I just retried setting window type to dock did seem to work.

[VuiMuich]

I had an interesting conky misbehaviour my self, when I screwed up theme.toml while testing #329.
I forgot to switch from the config stale where gutters where configured as a singe line option to the final style like this

[[gutter]]
side = "Top"
value = 0

This led to leftwm using the internal default theme and seemingly conky din't like this and spawned all it's windows floating, even though the theme.toml was fixed.
After a reboot for a full system update conky is back to normal.

So I guess you could try to explicitly add a gutter (like the above which doesn't actually do anything) to your theme.toml and do a hard reload of leftwm.

[VuiMuich]

Uuuhm, never mind. The issue is still here for me, gonna triage this further, but my guess now it is somewhat related to eww having windows open..