getting conky transparency to work with different desktops when autostarted

From	Gary Dale <garydale@torfree.net>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	getting conky transparency to work with different desktops when autostarted
Date	2017-09-17 21:50 +0200
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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?

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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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