Conky Issue on Archlinux

21 Mar 2014 Category: Archlinux

Conky is a light-weight and handy system monitor for X on Linux. However, wheneven I click other area on the destkop, it would disappear immediately. Here is how I sovle it after googling around.

Openbox, LXDE and PCManFM are used on my Archlinux. Later I found out the disappearing was caused by PCManFM which was also used for desktop management besides file manager. Please enter # killall pcmanfm and if there is no Conky disappearing afterwards, you could try my following method to replace PCManFM with Feh to manage wallpaper.

Please notice the autostart file might be different on different Linux distro.

Disable pcmanfm from autostarting. Edit /etc/xdg/lxsession/LXDE/autostart to remove or comment out below line:
```
 @pcmanfm --desktop-off --profile LXDE
```
Install Feh from official repository:
```
 # pacman -S feh
```
Edit ~/.config/lxsession/LXDE/autostart to add:
```
 @feh --bg-fill /path/to/wallpaper.jpg
```

Attach my screenshot and .conky file.

conky

alignment top_right

own_window yes
own_window_transparent yes
own_window_type destop
own_window_hints undecorated,below,sticky,skip_taskbar,skip_pager

double_buffer yes
background yes
text_buffer_size 512
#maximum_width 

border_width 1
cpu_avg_samples 10
default_color white
#default_outline_color white${scroll 16 $nodename - $sysname $kernel on $machine | }
default_shade_color white
draw_borders no
draw_graph_borders yes
draw_outline no
draw_shades no
use_xft yes
xftfont DejaVu Sans Mono:size=8
gap_x 5
gap_y 60
#minimum_size 5 5
net_avg_samples 2
no_buffers yes
out_to_console no
out_to_stderr no
extra_newline no
own_window yes
own_window_class Conky
own_window_type desktop
stippled_borders 0
update_interval 1.0
uppercase no
use_spacer none
show_graph_scale no
show_graph_range no

TEXT
${color grey}Archlinux $color ${alignr}${exec whoami}@$nodename
${color grey}$sysname $kernel on $machine 

Date & Time ${hr 2}
${color grey}${execpi 60 DJS=`date +%_d`; cal | sed s/"\(^\|[^0-9]\)$DJS"'\b'/'\1${color}'"$DJS"'${color grey}'/}
${color}${font : size=16}${offset 150}${voffset -65}${time %l:%M:%S}${color grey}${offset 1}${voffset -24}${font : size=8}${time %p}






Info ${hr 2}
${color grey}Uptime:$color $uptime
${color grey}Frequency (in GHz):$color $freq_g
${color grey}RAM Usage:$color $mem/$memmax - $memperc% ${membar 4}
${color grey}Swap Usage:$color $swap/$swapmax - $swapperc% ${swapbar 4}
${color grey}CPU Usage:$color $cpu% ${cpubar 4}
${color grey}CPU Temp: $color ${acpitemp} C
${color grey}Processes:$color $processes  ${color grey}Running:$color $running_processes
${color grey}Battery: ${color}${battery} ${battery_bar}

HDD ${hr 2}
${color grey}root $color${fs_used /}/${fs_size /} ${fs_used_perc /}% ${fs_bar 6 /}
${color grey}boot $color${fs_used /boot}/${fs_size /boot} ${fs_used_perc /boot}% ${fs_bar 6 /boot}
${color grey}home $color${fs_used /home}/${fs_size /home} ${fs_used_perc /home}% ${fs_bar 6 /home}

Network ${hr 2}
${color grey}SSID: $color${wireless_essid wlp3s0}
${color grey}Signal: $color${wireless_link_qual_perc wlp3s0}% ${alignr}${wireless_link_bar 8,60 wlp3s0}
${color grey}Address: ${color}${addr wlp3s0}
Up:$color ${upspeed wlp3s0} ${color grey} - Down:$color ${downspeed wlp3s0}

Processes ${hr 2}
${color grey}Name              PID   CPU%   MEM%
${color lightgrey} ${top name 1} ${top pid 1} ${top cpu 1} ${top mem 1}
${color lightgrey} ${top name 2} ${top pid 2} ${top cpu 2} ${top mem 2}
${color lightgrey} ${top name 3} ${top pid 3} ${top cpu 3} ${top mem 3}
${color lightgrey} ${top name 4} ${top pid 4} ${top cpu 4} ${top mem 4}

Sound/Noise

Conky Issue on Archlinux