[This guide is a patched-together version of various other guides, so credit goes to the original authors. Mainly http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Conky]
Conky transparency in Kubuntu 8.10 is slightly tricky, so I thought I'd document what worked for me.
Install conky from Konsole:
The config file for conky is
but it might be empty. To check it type kate ~/.conkyrc into a Konsole. A non-empty skeleton config file can found at
Use this to overwrite the empty config file if needed.
Then add the following to the new config file:
Then type conky into a Konsole to run it. It should appear on your desktop...but with broken transparency. Kill conky by pressing ctrl-C in the Konsole screen. Conky doesn't use "real" transparency..it copies a section of the wallpaper to fake transparency. The problem is, that it copies the wrong wallpaper. (It uses the one that is shown during the login). That needs to be fixed before transparency can work:
Install feh:
(You need to do it this way since a bug in adept causes it not to list feh even though its there. If you really want to use adept, then open the package manager, not add/remove, type it imlib2 and then it'll list feh 
)
The next part depends on how your OS is set up. The "/.kde/" part is shown as "/.kde4/" in pretty much all the conky transparency tutorials out there. It depends on how KDE4 was installed. For kubuntu 8.10:
You can also try the same thing with a 4 in it. Just figure out which one doesn't give an error by copying them into a Konsole.
After you've run the version correct for your setup, you can see if it fixed transparency in conky, by running conky from konsole.
Now the fix and conky need to be automated on startup. Create a new script file by typing into Konsole. (This will start the nano editor, you can also use Kate though)
and write the following into it
(Use ctrl-o to save and ctrl-x to exit nano)
Make the script executable:
And again, note that it could be "/.kde4/" in the above commands. (e.g. if you upgraded from kde3)
There is another method similar to this, but then you need to change the script each time you switch wallpapers.
The positioning & content of conky will still be wrong...but there are enough tutorials out there to fix that.
HX
Conky transparency in Kubuntu 8.10 is slightly tricky, so I thought I'd document what worked for me.
Install conky from Konsole:
Code:
sudo apt-get install conky
Code:
~/.conkyrc
Code:
/etc/conky/conky.conf
Then add the following to the new config file:
Code:
double_buffer yes own_window_hints below,sticky,undecorated,skip_taskbar own_window_transparent yes
Install feh:
Code:
sudo apt-get install feh
)The next part depends on how your OS is set up. The "/.kde/" part is shown as "/.kde4/" in pretty much all the conky transparency tutorials out there. It depends on how KDE4 was installed. For kubuntu 8.10:
Code:
feh --bg-scale "`grep 'wallpaper=' ~[b]/.kde/[/b]share/config/plasma-appletsrc | tail --bytes=+11`"
After you've run the version correct for your setup, you can see if it fixed transparency in conky, by running conky from konsole.
Now the fix and conky need to be automated on startup. Create a new script file by typing into Konsole. (This will start the nano editor, you can also use Kate though)
Code:
nano -w ~/.kde/share/autostart/fehconky
Code:
#!/bin/bash feh --bg-scale "`grep 'wallpaper=' ~/.kde/share/config/plasma-appletsrc | tail --lines=1 | sed 's/wallpaper=//'`" /usr/bin/conky &
Make the script executable:
Code:
chmod +x ~/.kde/share/autostart/fehconky
There is another method similar to this, but then you need to change the script each time you switch wallpapers.
The positioning & content of conky will still be wrong...but there are enough tutorials out there to fix that.
HX
The autorun doesn't seem that start reliably.
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