Comments on: Transparent Conky in KDE, part 2

By: chepioq

chepioq — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 17:40:07 +0000

I use your “feh --bg-scale `dcop kdesktop KBackgroundIface currentWallpaper 1`” for my conky for a long time but now with Kde4 it is not working and I know why…
dcop in kde4 is replaced by d-bus and I don't know how replaced dcop by d-bus.
Can you help me?

By: nrwilk

nrwilk — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 21:08:09 +0000

This works for me, but after I instantiate the transparent conky, if I click on the desktop, conky disappears.

How can I fix this?

By: Al

Al — Sat, 03 Nov 2007 14:36:28 +0000

I googled upon this site, I use gnome, with the default conkyrc it didn't display icons on the desktop. This line: own_window_type desktop seemed to fix the icon issue.

By: jirka

jirka — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 19:17:00 +0000

Works for me, thank you very much :)

By: jirka

jirka — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 19:14:32 +0000

Woks for me, thank you very much :)

By: sammael

sammael — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 02:38:57 +0000

oh my god thank you my saviour i finally can get some sleep!!! this was nagging me ever since i discovered conky, thanks a lot once again

By: circuit_breaker

circuit_breaker — Sun, 22 Jul 2007 21:00:59 +0000

for the beryl+emerald+kde users:

own_window yes
own_window_transparent yes
own_window_hints desktop,undecorated,below,sticky,skip_taskbar,skip_pager
own_window_type override

and use the feh recipe. now they stick to the fake KDE root background and don't drag either.

By: TommyHot

TommyHot — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 11:03:48 +0000

Ok it seems I've solved my problem. I have to change: own_window_type desktop

own_window_type normal

By: TommyHot

TommyHot — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 10:59:11 +0000

Even if I use feh and my conky gets transparent, after I click anywhere on the screen, conky diseappears.
But I can still find it in ps -auxe =(

By: Brian

Brian — Sun, 01 Jul 2007 17:00:56 +0000

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 30 Jun 2007 03:47:22 +0000

Actually scratch last post. my bad.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 30 Jun 2007 03:27:49 +0000

NOTE with Beryl/Compiz:

If you're going to put the command in your .conkyrc file use $texeci instead of $exec. Personally for me on kdemod + compiz-fusion it caused some lag when using the compiz-fusion toys. Something like this

${texeci feh --bg-scale `dcop kdesktop KBackgroundIface currentWallpaper 1`}

By: dragon_788

dragon_788 — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 21:30:13 +0000

Thanks Brian and calraith. I ended up using feh from within conky with a direct link to the wallpaper since the dcop command wasn't working properly.

By: Zach

Zach — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 20:56:43 +0000

Thanks for the solution, conky drove me nuts trying to get it properly transparent.

By: calraith

calraith — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 04:22:06 +0000

For what it's worth, appending this line to the bottom of .conkyrc works as well as autostarting feh; but since it only executes when conky launches, I think it's a little more graceful.

${exec feh --bg-scale `dcop kdesktop KBackgroundIface currentWallpaper 1`}

Yes, I'm slightly obsessive at times. =)

Ed Daniel: I would guess you could theoretically accomplish the same task by using Esetroot or gsetroot or some other ?setroot utility capable of setting gradients.

By: Ed Daniel

Ed Daniel — Tue, 29 May 2007 11:49:13 +0000

Sorry to throw a spanner in the works… is there a hack for those using the ‘gradient' desktop background feature i.e. wallpaper set to ‘none'?

By: Brian

Brian — Mon, 28 May 2007 02:49:31 +0000

Looks similar to what I was doing by hand before I started with feh. That's a good idea.

By: Ewilly

Ewilly — Wed, 23 May 2007 10:52:21 +0000

i found an easiest way to have conky transparent without installing / using feh on KDE :

OLDWALLPAPER=`dcop kdesktop KBackgroundIface currentWallpaper 1`
killall conky
sleep 10 && conky -d
dcop kdesktop KBackgroundIface setBackgroundEnabled false
sleep 1 && dcop kdesktop KBackgroundIface setBackgroundEnabled true
dcop kdesktop KBackgroundIface setWallpaper “$OLDWALLPAPER” 7

By: demon

demon — Mon, 19 Mar 2007 12:29:29 +0000

Just to thanks your contribution.
It works in opensuse 10.2 + kde3.5.5 + beryl 0.1.4
To make it works at start, just make a script in your $HOME/.kde/Autostart

Thx

By: Dmitriy

Dmitriy — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 23:04:38 +0000

Genius, you are simply genius!
hehe