Overlapping conky..

Question

Hey all again.
After a long period Im back on arch as I got a new pc(old one burned). Afer a while using the pre installed winxp I decided to go back to arch and is just now setting it up as I like ot have it.
I seem to have lost some of my memory banks because I cannot come up with a solution to this problem. The thing is that when a new song in mpd starts, conky refresh and overlap any window that happens to be in conky's area, see below pic.
Below is my .conkyrc
background yes
use_xft yes
xftfont dejavu sans mono -10
xftalpha 1
update_interval 2.0
total_run_times 0
double_buffer yes
draw_shades no
draw_outline yes
draw_borders no
stippled_borders 0
border_margin 1
border_width 1
default_color A29F84
default_shade_color black
default_outline_color black
alignment bottom_left
gap_x 1
gap_y 41
no_buffers yes
uppercase no
cpu_avg_samples 2
net_avg_samples 2
override_utf8_locale yes
own_window yes
own_window_type normal
own_window_transparent yes
own_window_hints undecorated,below,skip_taskbar,sticky,skip_pager
use_spacer none
TEXT
${color #353535}┌[ ${color #98c2c7}TIME${color #353535} ▸ ${color}${time %H:%M} ${color #353535}]
${color #353535}└─[ ${color #98c2c7}DATE${color #353535} ▸ ${color }${time %a,} ${time %B %e} ${color #353535}]
${color #353535}┌[ ${color #98c2c7}CORE${color }${color #353535} ▸ ${color}${hwmon 1 temp 1}/${hwmon 2 temp 1}°C ${color #353535}]
${color #353535}└─[ ${color #98c2c7}CPU${color #353535} ▸ ${color }${hwmon 0 temp 2}°C ${color #353535}]
${color #353535}┌[ ${color #98c2c7}MPD${color }${color #353535} ▸ ${color}${mpd_status} ${color #353535}]
${color #353535}└┬[ ${color #98c2c7}Time${color #353535} ▸ ${color }${mpd_elapsed}/${mpd_length}${color #353535} ]
${color #353535} └─[ ${color #98c2c7}Track ${color #353535}▸ ${color}${mpd_artist}${color #353535} / ${color }${mpd_album}${color #353535} / ${color }${mpd_title}${color #FF7B00}${color #353535} ]
any help or tip is appreciated
// Thanks.
EDIT: For those who miss it in the screenie, I use xfce.
Last edited by akejo (2008-08-11 09:37:11)

Answer 1

dunc wrote:Try "desktop" or "override" for own_window_type. Of course, you might then run into other problems, but it should solve that one. I find getting conky to play nicely with various WMs involves a series of compromises: you can never quite get it exactly the way you want.
Thanks.
I played around a little and it seems I didnt get the overlapping issue when I changed own_window_type to "no", leaving other settings as they were.