Conky suddenly shows up on the Task Manager Panel as well as the Desktop

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#1

For years, when running Conky, it just shows up borderless on the desktop. Now, for some reason it showed up with a border and with an application notification on the Panel (Task Manager). I managed to get rid of the border, but as long as Conky is running, I still see this active task notification on the task bar. Is there some way to turn this off?

I’m running 13.1 with KDE 4.11.5 on this machine.

#2

Hi
Is the version been updated to the 1.10.1? If so it uses lua now, so configs have to be converted, maybe this is the cause?

#3

Yes, it’s 1.10.1 - I used Conky Manager, but it was so long ago, I can’t remember what I did to get it to auto-start when I boot the system. Can you point me to somewhere to help me convert the configs?

#4

Hi
Have a look here, it’s just a matter of going through and fixing the syntax, there are conversion scripts, but for me, just some editing got things back up and running;
http://forum.siduction.org/index.php?topic=5709.0

For example, for a lua background that it draws;


 cat /data/configuration/conky/conky_bg 
conky.config = {
   own_window = true,
   own_window_type = 'normal',
   own_window_transparent = false,
   own_window_hints = 'undecorated,sticky,below,skip_taskbar,skip_pager',
   own_window_colour = 'black',
   own_window_class = 'Conky',
   own_window_title = 'Simple Default Conky',
   own_window_argb_visual = true,
   own_window_argb_value = 0,
   double_buffer = true,
   background = true,
   draw_borders = false,
   draw_outline = false,
   minimum_width = 1356, minimum_height = 237,
   maximum_width = 1356,
   gap_x = 3,
   gap_y = 40,
   font = 'Cantarell:size=9',
   default_color = '#DCDCDC',
   color0 = '#1793d0',
   color2 = 'green',
   color3 = '#FFFF00',
   color4 = '#FF6400',
   color5 = '#FF0000',
   use_xft = true,
   xftalpha = 0.8,
   override_utf8_locale = true,
   draw_shades = false,
   default_shade_color = 'black',
   draw_outline = false,
   uppercase = false,

   lua_load = '/data/configuration/conky/lua_scripts/draw_bg.lua',
   lua_draw_hook_pre = 'draw_bg'
}

conky.text = 
]]

So it’s more of commas at the end of lines and true/false etc…

See this thread for how it looks: http://forums.opensuse.org/showthread.php?t=512077

#5

Excellent - thanks Malcolm. Yeah, I totally customized those scripts some years ago, but now a bit rusty about all the details. I’ll find it and do the updates. Appreciate the pointer.

#6

Try
copy /etc/conky/convert.lua to your conkyrc location and convert your conky file- ./convert.lua ~/.conkyrc