subtle

Bug #311

Using conky with subtle

Added by andi artig 4 months ago. Updated 4 months ago.

Status:

Unconfirmed

Start date:

2013-01-16

Priority:

Normal

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Description

Hi there,

I'm trying to get conky running together with subtle. I'm facing a quite weird behaviour.
When I start conky it should be displayed on view "2" which works well. In the configuration I configured a gravity of :right33 (subtle.rb) When I switch to view "2" I see the conky window at the correct position for about 2 seconds, then it disappeard or is put on position :top_left. During my tests I reduced the conky config to the absolute minimum (conkyrc.system). If I start subtler with the parameters -l -c, then I got a "no geometry given" error.

https://gist.github.com/4547961 with conkyrc, subtle.rb and the console ouput of subtler.

Cheers,
andi_artig

History

#1 Updated by Christoph Kappel 4 months ago

Without checking your config, did you try to let conky draw onto the root window?

#2 Updated by andi artig 4 months ago

Yeah, I tried that. But my setup consists of two conky instances showing different information: one left and one right. So drawing to the root window does not work for my use case. I reduced the setup to the one on the right side to make debugging easier.

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#3 Updated by Christoph Kappel 4 months ago

Can you post the output of xprop of both your conky windows?

#4 Updated by andi artig 4 months ago

Hi there,

to match the configs I uploaded, I just captured the values of window 2

Window 2¶

_NET_FRAME_EXTENTS(CARDINAL) = 0, 0, 0, 0
_NET_WM_DESKTOP(CARDINAL) = 1
SUBTLE_CLIENT_SCREEN(CARDINAL) = 0
SUBTLE_CLIENT_GRAVITY(CARDINAL) = 20
SUBTLE_CLIENT_FLAGS(CARDINAL) = 0
_NET_WM_STATE(ATOM) = 
SUBTLE_CLIENT_TAGS(CARDINAL) = 16
WM_STATE(WM_STATE):
                window state: Normal
                icon window: 0x4
_NET_WM_WINDOW_TYPE(ATOM) = _NET_WM_WINDOW_TYPE_NORMAL
WM_PROTOCOLS(ATOM): protocols  
WM_NAME(STRING) = "Conky (<host>)" 
WM_LOCALE_NAME(STRING) = "en_GB.utf8" 
WM_CLASS(STRING) = "conky-system", "conky-system" 
WM_HINTS(WM_HINTS):
                Client accepts input or input focus: True
                Initial state is Normal State.
WM_CLIENT_MACHINE(STRING) = "<host>" 
WM_COMMAND(STRING) = { "/usr/bin/conky", "-c", "/home/<user>/.config/conky/conkyrc.system" }

#5 Updated by Christoph Kappel 4 months ago

Hey, I doubt that it is subtle's fault here, because conky just says its toplevel window of normal type and should be handled like every other window. So I cannot really comment on the behaviour without testing.

Well, I don't see me adding a kind of exclusion for stupid clients. ;)

#6 Updated by andi artig 4 months ago