Conky with SpaceFM desktop

[IgnorantGuru]

Received elsewhere:

what's the best way for Conky to play nicely with SpaceFM? I'm using it with pseudo-transparency and it displays the "root" background, but unfortunately SpaceFM's desktop must be a window above this and consequently on a refresh Conky seems to disappear completely. But if I kill SpaceFM, Conky reappears. (I think I had this problem when I tried the Rox desktop too. https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=1116951#p1116951

[IgnorantGuru]

Several reports of various difficulties with conky - this is on the things-to-look-at list.

[arclance]

You can use settings like this to make conky an actual window without decorations that will not show up in the taskbar.

own_window yes
own_window_transparent yes
#own_window_argb_visual false
#own_window_argb_value 0
own_window_type normal
own_window_hints undecorated,below,sticky,skip_taskbar,skip_pager

This will cover up desktop icons and may not work with all window managers. If you have two conkys that overlap each other you may need a method to control which window is on top of the other at all times. In Fluxbox this can be done using the apps file and

own_window_title

to give the conkys different window titles to differentiate them.

[simovic]

Conky with SpaceFM logo

http://www.imagebanana.com/view/vog9uh3i/123a.png

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/43069711/SpaceFM.zip

[IgnorantGuru]

Received elsewhere, it appears the spacefm desktop wallpaper does not appear beneath conky when using a gtk3 build as of 0.8.5 [with xfwm4].

[IgnorantGuru]

The suggestions in this issue have been added to the SpaceFM Wiki here. Please add any further conky suggestions to that page - thanks!