{"id":991,"date":"2014-01-07T00:22:04","date_gmt":"2014-01-06T23:22:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hutsky.cz\/blog\/?p=991"},"modified":"2014-01-07T22:15:11","modified_gmt":"2014-01-07T21:15:11","slug":"conky-and-mate-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hutsky.cz\/blog\/2014\/01\/conky-and-mate-problem\/","title":{"rendered":"Conky and MATE problem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hutsky.cz\/blog\/2014\/01\/conky-and-mate-problem\/137503-2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-992\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-992\" alt=\"137503-2\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hutsky.cz\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/137503-2.gif\" width=\"182\" height=\"558\" \/><\/a>I found <a href=\"http:\/\/gnome-look.org\/content\/show.php\/conky_orange?content=137503\">this lovely Conky script<\/a> that I wanted to use for my MATE desktop.<\/p>\n<pre>conky -c .conky\/conkyrc_orange<\/pre>\n<p>However, it wouldn&#8217;t start automatically after logging in, see:<\/p>\n<pre>user@machine:~$ cat .config\/autostart\/conky.desktop \r\n[Desktop Entry]\r\nType=Application\r\nExec=conky -c \/home\/user\/.conky\/conkyrc_orange\r\nHidden=false\r\nX-MATE-Autostart-enabled=true\r\nName[en_US]=conky\r\nName=conky\r\nComment[en_US]=\r\nComment=<\/pre>\n<p>(this can be set in System -&gt; Preferences -&gt; Startup Applications)<\/p>\n<p>It would stay there for a second after logging in but then it would disappear. I found out that this setting in the conky config file<\/p>\n<pre>own_window_type override<\/pre>\n<p>was probably fighting the window manager in some way, so it had to be changed to:<\/p>\n<pre>own_window_type panel<\/pre>\n<p>and that fixed the problem. The default value <i>own_window_type normal<\/i> worked as well, but the conky window would behave like a regular window then and it would respond to <i>Ctrl + Alt + D<\/i> for instance.<\/p>\n<p>Hope this might help someone a bit someday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I found this lovely Conky script that I wanted to use for my MATE desktop. conky -c .conky\/conkyrc_orange However, it wouldn&#8217;t start automatically after logging in, see: user@machine:~$ cat .config\/autostart\/conky.desktop [Desktop Entry] Type=Application Exec=conky -c \/home\/user\/.conky\/conkyrc_orange Hidden=false X-MATE-Autostart-enabled=true Name[en_US]=conky Name=conky &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hutsky.cz\/blog\/2014\/01\/conky-and-mate-problem\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Conky and MATE problem<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[10,34,13],"class_list":["post-991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-operatingsystems","tag-debian","tag-mate","tag-os"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hutsky.cz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/991","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hutsky.cz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hutsky.cz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hutsky.cz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hutsky.cz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=991"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.hutsky.cz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/991\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1001,"href":"https:\/\/www.hutsky.cz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/991\/revisions\/1001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hutsky.cz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hutsky.cz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hutsky.cz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}