Well - there is nothing obviously causing that from the conky end - what are you running it on? I just fired up the conky here, and apart from no pamac being present, and the pacman-mirrors not being here either, everything worked. Does this come from Manjaro by any chance?
Anyway - try changing the transparent setting to false to see if that helps, and perhaps the own_window_type to normal. Also, you might enable the argb setting (removing the - - in front of those commands) as another possible fix. Beyond that it is tough to say. Which DE are you using (if you know).
Hi, I am using lxqt. I was previously using Manjaro and in a virtualbox Mabox. I am trying no to see if adding compton may help or brake everything. I will try to change those variables.
It has improved¡, at least the LSD on, it is better though not perfect. The grey info still doesn’t work.
Well - I know it the best - and it is a VERY configurable version as well. You can specify any version from 1.13 (very stable) to the very latest (1.11.7 git), you can choose nvidia or not (me not - I’m all AMD) and do things like adding special support for Audacious (graphic bars etc) if you wish. Just don’t yay it in - git clone or download it from the AUR, and edit the PKGBUILD file for the options you want.
I know the guy maintaining it - he is the developer for conkywx - a toolkit for conky goodies including weather and widgets and gauges and calendars and… as you can spot on my screenshots - so I know his version will always be most usable
I decided to give it a go and picked a theme (lsd something). It’s running just fine, without issues.
But the image is white, so I put it in Gimp, changed its color and saved it with a different name. I loaded it into the conkyrc, but it keeps showing white.
Why is this happening? Shouldn’t it load the image as is?
Nothing changes.
If I put own_window_type = 'override' (with the other variables unchanged), then I get the correct color (the correct image), but with a black background.
I’ve made a folder .conky and I put everything in there (.conkyrc, rings.lua, lsd.png, lsdg.png (the edited one)). I call the image with its full path like ${image /home/jimmy213/.conky/lsdg.png -p 10,0 -s 330x495}
I’m late to this discussion, but if the black image background is the remaining problem, I think I remember above that you mentioned changing the image’s background color with gimp from white to black. If that’s true, then conky is displaying the image correctly and you’ll need to use gimp to adjust the image’s background color again (or to render it transparent) to your liking.
The image has a transparent background, I’m sure of that.
It seems as if something is stuck (?) in Conky. With own_window_type = 'normal' there is no background color, but the molecule (the png image) is shown white (like I’m loading the original pic) rather than the edited grey (that I specified it to load into the .conkyrc).
Just a thought … have you killed and restarted conky since you edited the image? I’m not sure whether conky will reload the base image dynamically, or whether it only loads once when initially started.
I have zero basis for this, but I wonder if the lua engine is rendering incorrectly because the image size doesn’t match/fit the window size parameters? Have you tried adjusting (playing with) the image size specs in the line:
Again, a total longshot; otherwise, I’m stumped… sorry!
So, right now it uses the “true transparency” options (second example). I want the “fake” one (first example). But if I set those options, I get a distorted background.
