How do I make Conky stick to my desktop?

How do I make Conky stick to my desktop?

How do I make Conky stick to my desktop?

Quick Solution:

  1. Add a ‘own_window_type dock’ line in the conkyrc.
  2. Install devilspie.
  3. Create a rule in devilspie with the ‘match’ pattern window_name ‘contains’ conky (no capital c – it matters).
  4. as actions, select ‘skip_tasklist’,’unminimize’ and if you want to have it on all workspaces, also ‘stick’.
  5. Thats it.

How do you run Conky in the background?

Use the following commands to start, stop or restart Conky.

  1. Start Conky. Execute the following command to start Conky in a background: $ conky -d Conky: forked to background, pid is 11122.
  2. Stop Conky. Execute the following command to stop Conky:
  3. Restart Conky.
  4. Setup Conky To Run On Startup.

How do I stop my Conky from flickering?

Q: Conky won’t stop flickering

  1. You can try enabling double-buffer. Conky’s double-buffer option uses the X double-buffer extension to provide a flicker-free Conky.
  2. Conky can run in windowed mode, meaning that instead of drawing the the root window it draws to it’s own window.

How do I update Conky?

Open command terminal

  1. Open command terminal.
  2. Run system update command.
  3. Finally, use sudo apt install conky-all command to install the full version of the Conky system monitor on your Ubuntu 20.04 or other similar Linux.
  4. Once the installation is completed to start it type- conky &

How do you set up Conky?

Here are the steps for installation:

  1. Open up a terminal window ([Ctrl]+[Alt]+[t] does the trick nicely)
  2. Issue the command sudo apt-get install conky-all.
  3. Type your sudo password and hit Enter.
  4. When prompted, accepted the installation by typing y.
  5. Allow the installation to complete.

Where is the Conky config?

/etc/conky/conky.conf
Running & Configuration That’s the default conky configuration. The file can be found in /etc/conky/conky. conf.

How do I install Conky widgets?

How to install Conky System Monitor on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS

  1. Open command terminal.
  2. Run system update command.
  3. Finally, use sudo apt install conky-all command to install the full version of the Conky system monitor on your Ubuntu 20.04 or other similar Linux.
  4. Once the installation is completed to start it type- conky &