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[jaydee]

battleshooter, appreciate the feedback.

its the openbox that comes as the default wm in lupu, specs say
openbox 3.4.11 , repo has it as openbox_3.4.10-1 .
the xdgmenu that also shows up in repo composes the start menu so it shouldnt (probably?) be necessary.

Tracking down the transparency command sounds like a tall order for my skillset, but i ll certainly give it a go. Also attached my conkyrc file, in case any specific setting in it contributes to the effect (also added a preview pic, to keep the punters passing through happy).

like yourself, i have nothing against feh, i just looked through its files, and it seems feh was designed for a completely different reason and function; it seems a bit too much for what we want it for (although still a great working fix).

thanks again for the effort.

[battleshooter]

Well that's got to be the weirdest thing ever. I tried fiddling around with the conkyrc file for the "Cherries" theme in OpenBox but wasn't able to achieve any transparency. Then I tried your compact lua theme (it's a nice take on the original by the way ) and true enough it was black and then eventually went transparent. I'll have to look more into this tomorrow, maybe copy the settings from the compact lua conkyrc and try to work them with another theme.

[jaydee]

its weird, right ?!

I was going back and forth on all the startup scripts and got lost, so i went back to the conkyrc file, commenting out rules and it seems that the rule that allows this is

[alwaysalonee]

[battleshooter]

I haven't had time to really process your post jaydee, I'll be busy most this week, but just thought to post to let you know I haven't forgotten about OpenBox and Conky.

[`f00]

..enable wand gestures (pesky brooms with pails

This may be ot for this particular conky (use the old 161 myself since 181 gave me multiple pids in htop), but pseudotrans needs always a bg set before conky starts - however you set it. Sometimes the wm does it like enlightenment, afterstep, startfluxbox or if flux/blackbox/? does it in the style when changing that; other wms I do the bg-set as the first line for each wm, then wbar, then conky (with sleep-delay as desired) in a ~/Startup/script. As noted conky 'catches up' after awhile (sooner or later, depending). If a rox pinboard is used, that can be yet another background (if roxpin has been set up as an on-demand item) or the initial method

On some of my pups, openbox likes a normal or desktop rather than override - otherwise windows may open under the layer conky is on. Enlightenment has different needs as well (akin to xfce as I recall, but with a few differences of course)

Depending on your 'clutter' preferences, more control can be exerted (like iconizing to the task/client list or..) with the 'skip' parameters - wms and pagers allowing. Funny, I used to use this to hide desktop icons under conky

[alwaysalonee]

here's a trick for noobs by a noob
create a script name it yoconky and paste code

[Colonel Panic]

This looks good. I might give it a try next weekend when hopefully I'll have some spare time. Thanks for the thread and info.

Cheers,

CP .

[scott2907]

Hi Guys
This is a great thread and I got conky in and working no bother.
I'm having trouble with my lua rings tho -

[battleshooter]

[scott2907]

Thanks for the answer I'll give it a go.

[koulaxizis]

Nice post my friend! I finally managed to set up conky as i like! Thank you!

[Haut_Dawg]

Hi! I'm fooling around with conky this morning. I have done step 1 and step 2. I seem to be missing something. Here's my screeny. Thank for any help.
Cheers!
Haut_Dawg

[James C]

One of my current Conky configs......

[nilsonmorales]

I like my conky+lua
thank you batleshooter