Closed lkingjr opened this issue nov 20, 2012 4 comments closed. Personally i do not use conky, but many of our users use it. Conky manager graphical frontend for managing conky in. So i thought id post how i do it here, in hopes it will help others. The key was to fiddle with the following parameters. First i thought, just remapping the conky window will do the trick. Sexy conky on your ubuntu or mint machine i know you have much knowledge about conky. It is a really very sexy, attractive, prity, essential desktop tool for every curious computer user. In a perfect world the panel recognizes if the driver is able to do true transparency and uses it, if not it falls back to faking.
Displaying system details on your desktop with conky system. Im a linux mint xfce user, and i love mint and i love xfce, but i was. Chromium with 8 tabs and 2 flash apps conky deadbeef. Transparent windows free download tucows downloads. Conky is able to monitor many system variables including cpu, memory, swap, disk space, temperature, top, upload, download, system messages, and much more. Conky remains one of the coolest ways of customizing your linux desktop.
Conky manager graphical frontend for managing conky in linux mint author shekin reading 2 min published by june 17, 2014 conky manger can do with a simple and obvious graphical interface to install a skin from the directory and more than one theme at a time can use it, can add conky in the autorun to change the location, transparency. Let us take a look at a few cool ones you can try it. Pakos an open source linux distro that is based on debian 10, and was made possible with the great support. Whenever conky is not its own window, it draws to that root window, but pcmanfm is there to cover it up. Whether you are a fedora, ubuntu, arch linux or any other linux distribution user you probably have used the lovable system monitor software, conky. Conky is a linux system monitor tool using x windows.
After it was closed, i asked about it, but realize nobody looks at clos. To install the conky script, extract the archive and put the extracted folder in conky manager. What is conky and how to configure conky on ubuntu 16. It is available for all linux distros, freebsd, and openbsd. Conky is a desktop widget that is able to display most diverse information like. Hello, i apologize if this has been reported already, googling only came up with a lot of old stuff.
Even with its superefficiency, lxde is still a nice and featurerich desktop environment that has menus. Openbox is a window manager, not a desktop environment. There are many post out there about it, but none of them helped in my case, it seems the solution. Transparency is a small tool for transparent png processing on the command line. As i have been saying in my last few articles, linux desktops like gnome, kde, lxde, xfce, etc. Next, you can possibly make the conky widget transparent and more smooth looking by adding the following lines into the top main config.
If your conky configuration is not transparent, you may need to adjust its code to have the following. But i have noticed that transparency has changed on the xfce 4. This project aimed to provide a new desktop environment which is useful enough and keep resource usage lower at the same time. What this means is that is not a truly transparent window. Therefore, you should check the system transparency. Pclinuxos br edition lxde is an open source linux distribution based on the well known pclinuxos operating system and built around the lightweight x11 desktop environment lxde it has been designed from the ground up to be used by people from the brazilian linux community who dig the pclinuxos distribution and love the lxde desktop environment. When mpd updates conky for instance it turns white and unreadable, and for urxvt it turns normal when i go to a different desktop and back so i have to move it. It provides conversion of white to transparency, and the preparation of transparent pngs for perfect gif export i. Jan 20, 2012 welcome to my arch linux postinstallation tutorial. I have copied it for your i have copied it for your leave a reply cancel reply.
Conky is able to monitor many system variables including cpu, memory, swap, disk space, temperature, top, upload, download, system messages, and. Getting conky to play nice with openbox and pcmanfm. Community releases include awesome, bspwm, budgie, cinnamon, deepin, i3, lxde, lxqt, mate, openbox and builds for arm devices. But now the transparency of conky doesnt work anymore, the background of conky. However, although this causes the conky window to stay on the desktop when show desktop is used, when the desktop is being clicked left or right for some reason the conky window dissappears again. Lxde is essentially openbox with a desktop layered on by the file manager pcmanfm if you removed pcmanfm in favor of another file manager, you would no longer. So i mailed the author dom and he shared his config file.
Older conkyconf versions used to write a different config file for kde. Ive tried about every combination i know of here, but conky either disappears when i click the desktop, disappears when i minimize all windows, or doesnt show at all. In any case, i was able to make conky work with pcman work. It is free software released under the terms of the gpl license. Some malware camouflages itself as system transparency. By joining our community you will have the ability to post topics, receive our newsletter, use the advanced search, subscribe to threads and access many other special features. I will also explain how to install a desktop environment as well as a few other applications to get you started. Download transparency effect plugin that can adjust the transparency level of the entire image or just parts of it, as well as ignore already transparent pixels. Alternate method if above doesnt work with the computer gods. Conky uses the x window system allowing you to monitor system variables such as cpu usage, swap space, temperatures, network download and upload speeds, time, calendar and much more. If there was a way to either get conky to draw to the pcmanfm window or get pcmanfm to not draw a background be transparent, then conky would show up. Top 35 best ubuntu themes that will blow your mind this article is an evergreen content by ubuntupit. Offers fantastic performance and possibly the best lubuntu release i have used the ubuntu. Fluxbox provides a number of window management features such as tabbing and grouping and has hundreds of styles themes available.
Installing conky on raspbianlinux, a system gui that tells data about your computer such as, ram size, cpu, top processes, etc. Ive started using conky a few days ago and im having a lot of hassle over the transparency issues many people have had to face. If you want to show the components assembled inside another component, you can apply transparency to the outer component that covers the other components. The problem with using conky with lxde is that pcmanfm handles the desktop in a way unlike any other desktop. Sexy conky on your ubuntu or mint machine net gator. Mar 31, 2015 to get transparency with conky in xfce, i had to go to menusettingswindow manager tweekscompositor, then put a tick next to enable display composting. Aug 31, 2011 to achieve conky s transparency under kde and some xfce but not the one in opensuse 11. What it does is read the background of the root window, and changes its own background to the section of the image it finds. Today i upgraded my desktop environment to the last stable version kde 4. Uncheck which ever one you dont want to run at startup. Installing conky on raspbian yusufs site raspberry pi. And also, in this tutorial we are going to setup arch linux core on a desktop with. At first blush, conky is a system monitor that will display pertinent information on your desktop.
Lxde of the four major linux desktop environments, lxde lightweight x11 desktop environment is the least resourcehungry, which makes it an outstanding choice for older computers. Some window or desktop managers do not set a background to the real. You may click transparency column to pop up menu used for fast switching transparency value. Edit thanks for this hint, now pushing the minimize all button doesnt minimize conky. But on xfce4 is different, enabling composite doesnt effect on conky, still get black background. When you peel past the top layer, you will see conky is actually much more than that. If you saved it under another name, you will need to use conky c pathtoconfigfile. For example, if you want to show the components under the hood of a car, you could just make the hood assembly transparent so that the components under the hood will be. If you use conky it virtually takes over your desktop.
It provides options to startstop, browse and edit conky themes installed on the system. Its reported by many users that conky doesnt work with desktop management provided by pcmanfm. There a ton of user created conky themes that are available for download. The part of the arch wiki article describing integration with some similar desktop environment might help. However, due to the weird approach pcmanfm uses to set wallpaper, background transparency may or may not work. Its everything you need to try out fedoras lxde desktop you dont have to erase anything on your current system to try it out, and it wont put your files at risk. Maybe the plasmadesktop is painting the background by itself without setting the root pixmap and letting the xserver paint it. Conky when first installed is quite ugly but you can make it look cool by using scripts.
Transparency issues on openbox with urxvt and conky. Feb 29, 2020 download lxde lightweight x desktop environment for free. The company offers transparency vision, an information policy management solution that enables business users to monitor, audit, and secure access to business information and data resources. Desktop widget for raspberry pi using conky novaspirit. Mein aktueller desktop sieht so aus, aber da geht noch was. You can safely save it to your bookmarks as it will always be updated from time to time according to any new releaseinformation about it. Conky desktop widget for raspberry pi singleboard computers is a great installation guide over at nova spirit tech.
After searching for solutions, i end up on two cases. Here, im going to teach you how to setup and build your own personalized desktop with arch linux. Is your conky not running with a transparent background. Conky is a free, lightweight system monitor for x, that displays any information on your desktop. Conky manager has an option to setup additional themes folders.
To change the position of each widget on your monitor look for these lines near the top of each. If your download does not start automatically, choose a download location to start your download. I post the picture which shows the issue and my conkyrc. The lightweight x11 desktop environment is an extremely fastperforming and energysaving desktop environment.
Jul 15, 2010 true transparency on the other hand means they show what is actually behind the panel, but as long as people dont autohide, there can be nothing behind the panel, so imho faked transparency is enough for most cases. I noticed from the other comments that you are using kde. Fedora lxde desktop is shipped as a live operating system. If you use conky it is better to have shotcut keys i do or have a menu with your most used apps i have that too in kde. I will use publicmythemes to download new themes and conky manger will load them. Several people who have seen screenshots of my desktop have asked me how i got a transparent conky, was i using feh, what were my settings, etc. It will also run extremely fast on newer computers. Not only can conky display information about your cpu, memory, swap, disk space, temperature, top, upload, download, system messages it can display. I am uploading my zipped pianobar folder with the new bin file pianobar that i compiled from source in my folder.
I know that lxqtpanel had the message added for the transparency option regarding a compositor. After enabling ecomorph, you can run conky transparently. Arch linux raspberry pi install guide updated lxde. If youve found yourself comfy on elementary os, and youre trying to find a conky theme to match, download and install eos. Openbox is only responsible for maintaining the windows you open on your screen nothing else. Lxde is essentially openbox with a desktop layered on by the file manager pcmanfm if you removed pcmanfm in favor of another file manager, you would no longer have lxde, youd essentially have openbox with the lxde panel. That means installing openbox wont give you easy menu access to wallpaper options, a taskbar or system panel, or most of those other doodads. Conky has many builtin objects, as well as the ability to execute external programs or scripts either external or through builtin lua support. Transparency issues on openbox with urxvt and conky i have a problem with transparency on openbox. Building a custom linux environment with openbox john ramsden. Top 35 best ubuntu themes that will blow your mind ubuntupit. Many users dont want to do this everytime they start up their system, so they add it to their autostart applications. Note also that since conky will be creating a transparent window on your desktop, any actions defined in awesomes rc.
To autostart compton as a background process for a session, specify the b argument. Mar 28, 2016 building a custom linux environment with openbox mar 28, 2016 in the past month or so i have been putting together my own desktop environment starting with archlinux and openbox and piecing all the different parts together to make a proper desktop environment. Maintained by an international community of developers, it comes with a beautiful interface, multilanguage support, standard keyboard short cuts and additional features like tabbed file browsing. This was one of the top download picks of the washington post and pc world. Packages are currently available in launchpad for ubuntu and derivatives linux mint, etc. Conky dissapears when i press minimize all lxde forums. Being highly configurable, conky is capable to display any system status such as cpu, disk usage, memory, temperature, emails and etc. Conky is highly configurable and is able to monitor many system variables including the status of the cpu, memory, swap space, disk storage, temperatures, processes, network interfaces, battery power, system messages, email inboxes linux updates, runs many popular music players, and much more. Conky is a system monitor that can display just about anything, either on your root desktop or in its own window. The problem with using conky with lxde is that pcmanfm handles the desktop in a way unlike. Conky is a system monitor software for the x window system. The icons are there but in the background, and it makes it impractical to access the icons. If you want to renable just repeat but check instead of uncheck.
Conky manager is a graphical frontend for managing conky config files. To make a component transparent in nx transparency in. This guide will explain how to install arch linux using the noobs new out of box software zip file provided by the raspberry pi foundation on their downloads page. We recommend security task manager for verifying your computers security. Conky is an open source system monitor that can display just about anything, either on your root desktop or in its own window. Status bar contains by default column with transparency value.
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