prupert

Getting Conky and Ubuntu 9.04 to play nice

Ever since the most recent upgrade to Ubuntu (9.04) my conky installation just has not been happy. I am guessing it is something to do with the fancy desktop effects provided by Compiz, and until there is a fix, you kinda have to implement a hack.

First, the only way to ensure that conky doesn’t overlay ALL your windows, is to use these settings in your .conkyrc:

# Create own window instead of using desktop (required in nautilus)
own_window yes

# If own_window is yes, you may use type normal, desktop or override
own_window_type override

Then, you need to create a little script that you run each time you boot up your computer. The script has to say:

killall conky
conky

Run this script after the computer has booted up, and conky behaves nicely, and stays on the desktop as it is meant to.

If anyone has a better solution than this then give me a shout, but this is the only way I have found of getting conky to not sit on top of everything else, not blank out all icon on the desktop, or not completley dissapear

a musical interlude

About ten years ago, when I had more time and less sense, I dabbled with making music. Since I didn’t want all that effort to go to waste, I published my music on Jamendo for a laugh. Here is a widget featuring all that hard work. Don’t take any of the stuff seriously, it is all very much tongue in cheek