Problem with Conky + Slim

Question

Hello everyone!
I'm having an issue when running Conky with SLiM. Conky's background should be transparent, but on my desktop, instead of being transparent, shows a part of SLiM's background. I don't know how to fix this, could you help me??
Thanks in advance!

Answer 1

Hi everybody.  I came across this post because conky was doing the same thing to me as to OP.  I'm running SLiM and Xfce on top of Arch Linux PPC, and conky would show my underlying SLiM background instead of Xfce's when I wanted transparency.  I tried all the solutions offered here without success, but fortunately I found another way.
What finally worked was enabling compositing in Xfce's Window Manager Tweaks dialog (Applications Menu --> Settings --> Window Manager Tweaks --> Compositor).  I turned it on, fired up conky, and I got a beautiful, see-through conky showing my regular background.  Woo! 
my .conkyrc:
# fork to background?
background yes
# Use double buffering (reduces flicker, may not work for everyone)
double_buffer yes
update_interval 2.0
# Create own window instead of using desktop (required in nautilus)
own_window yes
own_window_class Conky
own_window_type desktop
own_window_transparent yes
own_window_hints undecorated,below,sticky,skip_taskbar,skip_pager
own_window_argb_visual yes
#own_window_argb_value 100
#own_window_colour hotpink
use_xft yes
xftfont Bitstream Vera Sans Mono:size=08
cpu_avg_samples 2
net_avg_samples 2
out_to_console no
# mail spool
mail_spool $MAIL
# Draw borders around text
draw_borders no
# Stippled borders?
stippled_borders 10
# border width
border_width 1
# Default colors and also border colors
default_color white
# Text alignment, other possible values are commented
alignment top_right
# Gap between borders of screen and text
#gap_x 13
gap_y 30
# Add spaces to keep things from moving about? This only affects certain objects.
use_spacer none
# Subtract file system buffers from used memory?
no_buffers yes
# set to yes if you want all text to be in uppercase
uppercase no
TEXT
$nodename - $sysname $kernel on $machine
$stippled_hr
${color lightgrey}Uptime:$color $uptime ${color lightgrey}- Load:$color $loadavg
${color lightgrey}CPU Usage:${color #5000a0} ${cpu cpu1}% ${cpubar cpu1}
${color black}${cpugraph 000000 5000a0}
${color lightgrey}RAM Usage:$color $mem/$memmax - $memperc% $membar
${color lightgrey}Swap Usage:$color $swap/$swapmax - $swapperc% ${swapbar}
${color lightgrey}Processes:$color $processes ${color grey}Running:$color $running_processes
$color$stippled_hr
${color lightgrey}Networking:
Down:${color #8844ee} ${downspeed wlan0} ${color lightgrey} ${offset 70}Up:${color #22ccff} ${upspeed wlan0}
${color black}${downspeedgraph wlan0 32,150 ff0000 0000ff} $alignr${color black}${upspeedgraph wlan0 32,150 0000ff ff0000}
$color$stippled_hr
${color lightgrey}File systems:
/ $color${fs_used /}/${fs_size /} ${fs_bar /}
$color$stippled_hr
${color}Proc usage: PID CPU% MEM%
${color #ddaa00} ${top name 1} ${top pid 1} ${top cpu 1} ${top mem 1}
${color lightgrey} ${top name 2} ${top pid 2} ${top cpu 2} ${top mem 2}
${color lightgrey} ${top name 3} ${top pid 3} ${top cpu 3} ${top mem 3}
${color lightgrey} ${top name 4} ${top pid 4} ${top cpu 4} ${top mem 4}
${color lightgrey} ${top name 5} ${top pid 5} ${top cpu 5} ${top mem 5}
${color}Mem usage:
${color #ddaa00} ${top_mem name 1} ${top_mem pid 1} ${top_mem cpu 1} ${top_mem mem 1}
${color lightgrey} ${top_mem name 2} ${top_mem pid 2} ${top_mem cpu 2} ${top_mem mem 2}
${color lightgrey} ${top_mem name 3} ${top_mem pid 3} ${top_mem cpu 3} ${top_mem mem 3}
${color lightgrey} ${top_mem name 4} ${top_mem pid 4} ${top_mem cpu 4} ${top_mem mem 4}
${color lightgrey} ${top_mem name 5} ${top_mem pid 5} ${top_mem cpu 5} ${top_mem mem 5}
I'd like to note that I needed own_window_type to be desktop.  Setting to override shows the SLiM background again.  Or maybe just a black background, I don't know.  Anyway, choose desktop.
Just thought I'd share what worked for me, after hours of frustration.
Last edited by eap (2012-02-28 23:06:18)