Every time I launch my conky, and I click anywhere on the desktop, it disappears, and I have to keep relaunching it, does anyone have a solution?
3 Answers
Open your conkyrc file with
nano .conkyrc
and then
made the changes for the following lines
own_window yes
own_window_class Conky
own_window_type normal
own_window_hints undecorated,below,sticky,skip_taskbar,skip_pager
own_window_transparent yes
Then kill your conky and try again launching.
let us know if any issues.
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{own_window_type panel}
also seems to work, but omits the window border et. al. present if you use
{own_window_type normal}
The important thing is that somehow either one does prevent the conky window from being covered by the desktop.
When you do a File Save on .conkyrc then conky will reload without need of a formal kill and restart.
I tried every option for own_window_type
to get Conky to persist on my desktop, all to no avail. I finally found that setting
background=false;
in .conkyrc and making sure to not autostart conky with the -d
flag did the trick once and for all.