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Re: getting conky transparency to work with different desktops when autostarted

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On Sun, Sep 17, 2017 at 03:48:00PM -0400, Gary Dale wrote:
>This seems to be a black art, but I wonder if anyone has been able to 
>get this to work consistently.
>
>The computer is running Debian/Stable on an AMD64 system. It's older 
>hardware and I've set it up for someone who speaks Arabic. I've 
>included Plasma 5 because it does the best job with Arabic but also 
>included LXDE because it works noticeably faster on this system. My 
>goal is to use the same .conkrc for both desktops.
>
>I got it to autostart on both using .config/autostart/conky.desktop, 
>which starts conky with the -b -d options.
>
>I'd got conky to work with own_window_transparency = yes when I start 
>it from bash but the same settings produced a black background on both 
>Plasma and LXDE when autostarted with the .desktop file.
>
>When I switched to using own_window_argb_value = 0 (and associated 
>other settings), I got a transparent background in Plasma 5 but not 
>LXDE.
>
>Can anyone offer any advice?

Do both desktops offer compositing?

Compositing is a feature that uses the acceleration capabilities of your 
graphics card to apply effects to windows before showing them. That is, 
the traditional behaviour was that a window took up a certain amount of 
space on the screen and anything behind that was not drawn. But with 
compositing, all windows are drawn (off-screen) and the resulting 
appearances are "composed" into the final scene, optionally applying 
transformations such as alpha-blending (transparency) or even 2D 
transforms (Compiz's famous wobbly windows).

Try installing and running "compton" (a lightweight composition manager) 
while conky is running, and see if the transparency effect appears.

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getting conky transparency to work with different desktops when  autostarted Gary Dale <garydale@torfree.net> - 2017-09-17 21:50 +0200
  Re: getting conky transparency to work with different desktops when  autostarted Darac Marjal <mailinglist@darac.org.uk> - 2017-09-18 11:00 +0200

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