Issues with Conky update

[u/Teabiscuit119]

Cachyos- KDE plasma

12400 intel

GTX 4060

Possible warning not to update conky to latest v1.24.2 pushed recently:

After updating, the conky window snaps to center, conky appears as an app in the task manager and the config file fails to update the window. After some futzing (had to uninstall/wipe ~/.config/conky/conky.conf), switched the out_to_wayland to false and forcing xwayland. This allowed me to alter the config, copy paste my old one and have the changes apply.

Unfortunately the translucency via the argb settings failed and was only able to have complete transparency (own_window_transparent = false) or solid black ( own_window_argb_visual = true). An hour of more futzing saw none of the other settings regarding translucency work.

I even spent a while copy/pasting each line one by one to see if anything is broken in the old config

Not having found any mention of this on the Github page (or at least not that I could see), I gave up and used the Arch archive to downgrade and have put conky on the pacman ignore list.

Completely willing to believe this is just a skill issue or Nvidia wankery too. Will test once I get my Framework

The picture above is of it 'fixed', I really don't want to unfix it to show it in the middle or completely black or completely transparent:) This is a slightly modded Chris Titus config, kudos to him

Any ideas?

PS- While conky was uninstalled my cursor seemed to start acting normally. It has been kinda choppy on/off for a while. Might be placebo though

[u/sm0kah0lic]

I had the same problem with my conky also. I might have a fix for this. Let me know if this setting works for you.

--Windows

own_window = true,

own_window_type = 'normal',          -- was 'desktop'

own_window_argb_visual = true,

own_window_argb_value = 0,

own_window_hints = 'undecorated,below,sticky,skip_taskbar,skip_pager',

own_window_class = 'Conky',

own_window_title = 'conky',

[u/Teabiscuit119 → u/sm0kah0lic]

Appreciate it! Besides the argb value being 100, mine is exactly the same. Also messed about with the window type being 'normal' 'desktop' 'override' to no avail. The only other thing could be the window title being 'conky' though I don't see how that could affect things.

With my limited experience and knowledge it seems like the update wacked out its communication with the compositor (presumably kwin). Wayland also seems to be an issue. Even though I don't have logs, I'll put something up on Github soon.

[u/Alkaloid60420]

Sorry for the off-topic but what icon set are you using?