Conky moves like a window on overview with pop-shell enabled. Works normally when pop-shell is disabled.

[spxak1]

(1) Issue/Bug Description:

Conky (configured with own_window_type = 'desktop') should not appear on the task view (overview). When the task view is selected conky disappears. This is the expected operation.

With the update from 20.10 to 21.04, conky now behaves as a window. Here is a screenshot with COSMIC and COSMIC Dock disabled in the extensions app.

COSMIC and COSMIC Dock make no difference if they are enabled or disabled.

The issue stops as soon as pop-shell is disabled.

(2) Steps to reproduce (if you know):

1. Install Pop 21.04
2. Install conky (sudo apt install conky)
3. Start conky from the terminal (conky &)
4. Press super+d for overview (task view)
5. Conky moves and appears as a window
6. Disable pop-shell from the Extensions app
7. Conky now behaves properly, when super+d is pressed it just disappears from the screen, no Window appears.

See video here

(3) Expected behavior:

Conky disappears from view when the overview is selected.

(4) Distribution (run cat /etc/os-release):

NAME="Pop!_OS"
VERSION="21.04"
ID=pop
ID_LIKE="ubuntu debian"
PRETTY_NAME="Pop!_OS 21.04"
VERSION_ID="21.04"
HOME_URL="https://pop.system76.com"
SUPPORT_URL="https://support.system76.com"
BUG_REPORT_URL="https://github.com/pop-os/pop/issues"
PRIVACY_POLICY_URL="https://system76.com/privacy"
VERSION_CODENAME=hirsute
UBUNTU_CODENAME=hirsute
LOGO=distributor-logo-pop-os

(5) Gnome Shell version: GNOME Shell 3.38.4

(6) Pop Shell version (run apt policy pop-shell or provide the latest commit if building locally):

pop-shell:
  Installed: 1.1.0~1625433688~21.04~acd91df
  Candidate: 1.1.0~1625433688~21.04~acd91df
  Version table:
 *** 1.1.0~1625433688~21.04~acd91df 1001
       1001 http://ppa.launchpad.net/system76/pop/ubuntu hirsute/main amd64 Packages
       1001 http://ppa.launchpad.net/system76/pop/ubuntu hirsute/main i386 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

(7) Where was Pop Shell installed from:

Pop update to 21.04 (from 20.10)

(8) Monitor Setup (2 x 1080p, 4K, Primary(Horizontal), Secondary(Vertical), etc):

Laptop screen 2560x1440.

(9) Other Installed/Enabled Extensions:

N/A

(10) Other Notes:

Conky behaved properly with pop-shell in 20.10 prior to the upgrade to 21.04.

Thank you.

[mmstick]

I assume you have the wrong window type. Normal window types are tiled.

own_window yes
own_window_class Conky
own_window_type override
background yes

[jmmaranan]

I think it is also related to the skip taskbar change. I'll send a fix on that toggled as off by default.

[spxak1]

I assume you have the wrong window type. Normal window types are tiled.

own_window yes
own_window_class Conky
own_window_type override
background yes

I added the window class and changed the type to override (from desktop). Makes no difference, conky still appears in the overview.

I think it is also related to the skip taskbar change. I'll send a fix on that toggled as off by default.

I removed skip_taskbar, and made no difference.

Conky would not show in the overview up until maybe the last pop-shell version. Certainly before 21.04.

Here's a snippet of my conky config for reference. However, the problem exists with the default conky config (right after a clean conky install).

conky.config = {
-- By Khiky_Merveilles
        background = true,
        use_xft = true,
        font = 'Product Sans Regular:size=9',
        xftalpha = 0.8,
        update_interval = 1,
        total_run_times = 0,
        own_window = true,
        own_window_type = desktop,
        own_window_transparent = true,
        own_window_class = Conky,
        own_window_hints = 'undecorated,below,sticky,skip_taskbar,skip_pager',
        double_buffer = true,
        draw_shades = false,
        draw_outline = false,
        draw_borders = false,
        draw_graph_borders = false,
        stippled_borders = 0,
        border_margin = '5',
        border_width = 1,
        default_color = '#000000',
        default_shade_color = '#000000',
        default_outline_color = '#000000',
        minimum_width = 500, minimum_height = 300,
        maximum_width = 500,
        gap_x = 0,
        gap_y = 0,
        alignment = 'bottom_left',
        no_buffers = true,
        uppercase = false,
        cpu_avg_samples = 2,
        net_avg_samples = 2,
        short_units = true,
        text_buffer_size = 2048,
        use_spacer = 'none',
        override_utf8_locale = true,
        imlib_cache_size = 0,

-- Color scheme #
        default_color = 'white',
        color1 = 'white',
        color2 = '#FD7F00',
        color3 = '#F5F24C',

        own_window_argb_value = 0,
        own_window_argb_visual = true,
        own_window_colour = '#000000',
};

As always, many thanks

[jmmaranan]

@spxak1 - apologies I was not clear. There was a feature that was implemented to handle windows that have skip taskbar property in them. I believe conky still falls under skip_taskbar category even if you had it configured off in conkyrc. I was able to replicate when that feature is turned on in popshell.

Can you try this branch? https://github.com/pop-os/shell/pull/1061

You can toggle it to ON from Extensions > Pop-Shell or Super+/, search for Toggle Min.

[spxak1]

I can confirm it Conky does not appear in the overview with that commit and Show Skip Taskbar Off.

I can see this was merged to master. How soon to push it to apt?

Thank you very much for the quick response and fix. Much appreciated.

[jmmaranan]

@jacobgkau - please reopen this as well