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How I can stop blinking conky? I make in my config all what I want - transparent, showing icons above conky, but I cant do nothing with blinking! When I make double_buffer yes conky stop blinking, but I cant do nothing with icons that are under conky. I dont use conpiz and kde. I use openbox and Conky 1.8.1 . How I can fix blinking?

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Have you tried going into the .conkyrc configuation file and changing the line "own_window yes" I know I had that problem everytime I opened and/or closed a file the Conky display would flicker/blink. When I changed the above from "no" to "yes" it worked like a charm.

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