Tuesday, February 9, 2016

Conky desktop widgits Ubuntu 15.10 - make it stick!

Ubuntu 15.10 seems to have, by default, conky's dfor the desktop displayed as "normal" windows. "Desktop" setting results in unpleasant behavious of the widgit disappearing when you click on the desktop. Solution how to get this to work in  conky.rc fragment below:
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# Window specifications #
gap_x 100
gap_y 70
minimum_size 268 620
maximum_width 268
own_window yes
own_window_class conky
own_window_type override  # other options are: override/dock/desktop/panel
own_window_transparent yes
own_window_hints undecorate,sticky,skip_taskbar,skip_pager,below
border_inner_margin 0
border_outer_margin 0
alignment top_right
#own_window_argb_visual yes
#own_window_argb_value 0
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