Conky with XFCE 4.20 disappears

thefrog · February 18, 2025, 10:20pm

Not sure what is going on the conky works fine under Cinammon and Openbox

here is the conky code

--[[

#=====================================================================================
# Date    : March 21 2023
# Author  : thefrog
# Version : 1.0.0
# License : Distributed under the terms of GNU GPL version 2 or later
#=====================================================================================
# CONKY
# For commands in conky.config section:
# http://conky.sourceforge.net/config_settings.html
#
# For commands in conky.text section:
# http://conky.sourceforge.net/variables.html
#
#======================================================================================

]]
conky.config = {
	alignment = 'middle_left',
	gap_y = 5,
	minimum_width = 50,
	minimum_height=50,
	background = true,
	
default_color = '02FF00',
	color2 = 'ff0000', -- red
	color1 = '02FF00', --green
	color3 = 'e8ab49', -- orange
	color4= 'b58bf0', -- purple
	color5="ffffff",  --  white
	color6 = 'b13916',  --  red-autumn
	color7 = 'f0efef',   -- offwhite
	
	
	update_interval = 1,
	double_buffer = true,
	font = 'Verdana=14',
	draw_shades = false,
	no_buffers = true,
	own_window = true,
	own_window_class = "Conky",
	own_window_type = 'desktop',
	own_window_transparent = false,
	own_window_argb_visual = true,
	own_window_argb_value = 150,
	use_xft = true,
	
-------------------------------------
--  Icon Sources
-------------------------------------
template0="~/.config/conky/images/weather-icons/64px-green",


-------------------------------------
--  API Key
--  To get API Key, first you have to sign up here https://openweathermap.org/appid
-------------------------------------
template6="e5d8c78d4d04129f7a9bd767d892b7b2",


-------------------------------------
--  City ID
--  Find your City ID here https://openweathermap.org/city
-------------------------------------
template7="5164466",


-------------------------------------
--  Temp Unit (default, metric, imperial)
-------------------------------------
template8="imperial",


-------------------------------------
--  Locale (e.g. "es_ES.UTF-8")
--  Leave empty for default
-------------------------------------
template9=""
	
}
conky.text = [[
$alignc${font Tahoma :size=40}${color4}\
${time %I}:${time %M}${font}${color4}
${hr}
#code taken from Jelly Conky from zagortenay333
${execi 300 l=${template9}; l=${l%%_*}; curl -s "api.openweathermap.org/data/2.5/forecast/daily?APPID=${template6}&id=${template7}&cnt=5&units=${template8}&lang=$l" -o ~/.cache/forecast.json}\
${execi 300 l=${template9}; l=${l%%_*}; curl -s "api.openweathermap.org/data/2.5/weather?APPID=${template6}&id=${template7}&cnt=5&units=${template8}&lang=$l" -o ~/.cache/weather.json}\
\
\
\
\
${font Tahoma :size=28}${color4}\
${voffset 5}\
$alignc${execi 300 jq ".main.temp" ~/.cache/weather.json | awk '{print int($1+0.5)}' # round num}°${font}
\
\
\
\
${voffset 5}\
$alignc${color7}${execi 300 jq -r ".weather[0].description" ~/.cache/weather.json}${font}${color4}
#end code
$hr

${image $HOME/.config/conky/images/myne/icons/os.png -p 65,190 -s 32x32}
$alignc${color4}${execi 6000 lsb_release -d | grep 'Descr'|awk {'print $2 " " $3" " $4" " $5'}}

${image $HOME/.config/conky/images/myne/icons/kernel.png -p 65,255 -s 32x40}
$alignc${color7}${kernel}

${image $HOME/.config/conky/images/myne/icons/update.png -p 65,330 -s 32x32} 
$alignc${execpi 12000 checkupdates | wc -l} - ${execpi 3600 paru -Qu | wc -l}${color4}
$hr

$alignc${color7}${cpu cpu0} % CPU
${color4}${cpubar cpu0}
$alignc${color7}${voffset 12}${mem} / ${memperc} % RAM
${color4}${membar}
$alignc${color7}${voffset 12}${fs_free /} / ${fs_free_perc /} % HDD
${color4}${fs_bar /}
$hr
${image $HOME/.config/conky/images/myne/icons/Battery.png -p 45,610 -s 64x64}
$alignc${voffset 25}${font Verdana :size=16}${color7}${battery_short BAT0}
]]

Should note this is a fresh install.
Lenovo Legion 5
Nvidia GTX 1650
Nvidia Driver Version 570.86.16
X11 session

Should note that it only seems to disappear when the desktop is clicked on and not the panel or a open window

thefrog · February 19, 2025, 12:29am

This is what it looks like before you click the desktop and it disappears.

fog · February 19, 2025, 7:32am

I have many years to use conky but from my old configs, try to change this:

own_window_type = 'desktop'

to this:

own_window_type = 'override'

thefrog · February 19, 2025, 8:16am

that does it. but it kills the transparancy.

fog · February 19, 2025, 8:37am

Try to change this:

own_window_transparent = false,

to true.

thefrog · February 19, 2025, 8:41am

yeah didn’t work. I tried that first lol
I do have picom so that not the issue either (or maybe it is lol)
either way with or without picom it has no transparency

fog · February 19, 2025, 8:57am

Try with this settings, from here:

own_window_type = ‘normal’,
own_window_transparent = false,

Window type of normal is required because XFCE uses a xfdesktop desktop window to show the background, so using the same type might cause conky to get layered behind it.

thefrog · February 19, 2025, 9:49am

well unfortunately none of that actually works right.
Adding normal puts a title bar around it I put in hints

did get a bit more information about the window it appears that its treating the conky as a sub window instead of its own even though I have own_window = 'true'
changing the own window to false brings very unwanted behavior lol (black desktop as it covers the whole desktop)
so I have ended up trading one set of issues for another.

thefrog · February 19, 2025, 10:00am

Ok got it fixed. I changed the own_window_type
own_window_type = 'dock' and now it works.

Well it introduced a new problem now it always on top

Good thing bad luck exist or I’d have none at all.

ok reboot it works now hmm must have been the hints not take affect at first

Pinhead · February 19, 2025, 10:27am

Didn’t you find it here?
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Conky

thefrog · February 19, 2025, 10:36am

no I originally followed @fog link.

I just thought maybe changing it to dock would be better (seemed like I had to do this for KDE way back when i installed it for that brief moment.) and when the conky reloaded it was as should be except being over everything I decided to reboot and now it seems its working.

own_window_hints = ‘below’ is what I found to work just not until the reboot. (could been because I had been messing with it so much and changing so much in a short time)

conky now has this code

	own_window_class = Conky,
	own_window_type = ‘dock’,
	own_window_hints = ‘below’
	own_window_transparent = false,
	own_window_argb_visual = true,
	own_window_argb_value = 100,

thefrog · February 19, 2025, 11:40am

This is the end result

system · February 21, 2025, 11:41am

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