[SOLVED] Running Conky with a compositor activated
by walker from LinuxQuestions.org on (#4XRMB)
I was looking for a distro able to install in a plain UEFI way on a 2015 HP laptop only using fat 32 boot uefi partition and / + /home formatted as XFS due to its design able to reduce write cycles which saves ssd.
I remembered SalixOS I used some years ago so I gave it a try.
Selecting elilo instead of grub with Salix live installer did the job but I can't live without monitoring resources consumption so conky was absolutely needed.
I use Salix Xfce which has Xfce own compositor enabled by default so Conky was weird I prefer to have it as "printed on background".
Adding the line
own_window_argb_visual yes
to ~/.conkyrc
did the job.
I encountered the same issue also on Devuan with xcompmgr activated so the general rule if you want to have conky depicted as in the screenshot whe running a compositing manager don't forget to add that line to conky configuration file.
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I remembered SalixOS I used some years ago so I gave it a try.
Selecting elilo instead of grub with Salix live installer did the job but I can't live without monitoring resources consumption so conky was absolutely needed.
I use Salix Xfce which has Xfce own compositor enabled by default so Conky was weird I prefer to have it as "printed on background".
Adding the line
own_window_argb_visual yes
to ~/.conkyrc
did the job.
I encountered the same issue also on Devuan with xcompmgr activated so the general rule if you want to have conky depicted as in the screenshot whe running a compositing manager don't forget to add that line to conky configuration file.
Attached Thumbnails