Window disappears when I click on desktop

[blakemcbride]

Issue

When I run conky I get the expected informational window. If I click on the disktop, it disappears but the conky process does not exit. I'd prefer if it didn't disappear when I click on the desktop. However, if it does disappear, how do I make it reappear?

Information

I am using 64-bit LinuxMint 19.3 MATE

I am trying the default conky config.

[chenssgit]

I ran into the same issue on xubuntu20.04. conky just buggy

[hanscees]

Same issue here on ubuntu 21

some info that might help??
conky: received SIGHUP, SIGINT, or SIGTERM to terminate. bye!
$ DEBUG(0) [/build/conky-QmM1tH/conky-1.11.6/src/x11.cc:437]: deinit_X11

conky -v
conky 1.11.6 compiled 2020-08-17 for Linux x86_64

ps waux | egrep -i xo
root 1292 7.0 0.8 690248 68192 tty7 Rsl+ 13:52 1:55 /usr/lib/xorg/Xorg -core :0 -seat seat0 -auth /var/run/lightdm/root/:0 -nolisten tcp vt7 -novtswitch

Using mate
env | egrep -i xdg
XDG_CONFIG_DIRS=/etc/xdg/xdg-mate:/etc/xdg
XDG_SESSION_PATH=/org/freedesktop/DisplayManager/Session0
XDG_SEAT=seat0
XDG_SESSION_DESKTOP=mate
XDG_SESSION_TYPE=x11
XDG_GREETER_DATA_DIR=/var/lib/lightdm-data/hanscees
XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP=MATE
XDG_SEAT_PATH=/org/freedesktop/DisplayManager/Seat0
XDG_SESSION_CLASS=user

also
COMPIZ_CONFIG_PROFILE=mate

my .conkyrc
`
conky.config = {
alignment = 'top_right',
background = true,
border_width = 1,
cpu_avg_samples = 2,
default_color = 'white',
default_outline_color = 'white',
default_shade_color = 'white',
double_buffer = true,
draw_borders = false,
draw_graph_borders = true,
draw_outline = false,
draw_shades = false,
extra_newline = false,
font = 'Droid Sans:size=10',
gap_x = 10,
gap_y = 50,
minimum_height = 140,
minimum_width = 20,
net_avg_samples = 2,
no_buffers = true,
out_to_console = false,
out_to_ncurses = false,
out_to_stderr = false,
out_to_x = true,
own_window = true,
own_window_class = 'Conky',
own_window_type = 'desktop',
own_window_transparent = false,
own_window_argb_visual = true,
own_window_argb_value = 90,
show_graph_range = false,
show_graph_scale = false,
stippled_borders = 0,
update_interval = 1.0,
uppercase = false,
use_spacer = 'none',
use_xft = true,
xftalpha = 0.1,
color0 = 'white',
color1 = 'EAEAEA',
color2 = 'FFA300',
color3 = 'grey',
}

conky.text = [[
${color slate grey}Info: $sysname $nodename $kernel $machine
Uptime:$color $uptime

${cpugraph cpu1 50,150}${cpugraph cpu2 50,150}${voffset -19}
${cpugraph cpu3 50,150}${cpugraph cpu4 50,150}
${font Ubuntu:size=10}${voffset -110}${color3}${goto 10}1 ${goto 160}2 ${goto 0} ${voffset 50} ${goto 10}3 ${goto 160}4
${font Ubuntu:size=8}${voffset -67}${color3}${goto 108}${freq_g (1)}GHz ${goto 258}${freq_g (2)}GHz ${goto 0}${voffset 50}${goto 108}${freq_g (3)}GHz ${goto 258}${freq_g (4)}GHz

$hr
${color2}CPU ${color red}${alignr}${cpu cpu0}%
${cpubar cpu0 5,}
${color red}${font Ubuntu Mono:size=12}${top name 1} $alignr ${top cpu 1}%
${top name 2} $alignr ${top cpu 2}%
${top name 3} $alignr ${top cpu 3}%
${top name 4} $alignr ${top cpu 4}%
${top name 5} $alignr ${top cpu 5}%

${color2}RAM ${color0}${alignr}${mem}
${membar 5,}
${top_mem name 1} $alignr ${top_mem mem_res 1}
${top_mem name 2} $alignr ${top_mem mem_res 2}
${top_mem name 3} $alignr ${top_mem mem_res 3}
${top_mem name 4} $alignr ${top_mem mem_res 4}
${top_mem name 5} $alignr ${top_mem mem_res 5}
$hr

${color2}Download ${color red}${alignr}${downspeedf enp3s0} KiB/s
${downspeedgraph enp3s0 80,}
${color2}Upload ${color0}${alignr}${upspeedf enp3s0} KiB/s
${upspeedgraph enp3s0 80,}
$hr
${color Tan2}ESTABLISHED Connections${color DarkSlateGray}${hr 2}

${offset 10}${color lightgrey}Inbound: ${color white}${tcp_portmon 1 32767 count} ${color lightgrey}Outbound: ${color white}${tcp_portmon 32768 61000 count}${alignr}${color lightgrey}Total: ${color white}${tcp_portmon 1 65535 count}

${color slate grey}Process ${color slate grey}Remote Host ${color slate grey}L-Port ${alignr}${color slate grey}R-Port${color lightgrey}

${color red}${font Ubuntu Mono:size=10}${texeci 30 netstat -ap | grep 'ESTABLISHED' | awk '{print $1, " ", $4, " ", $5, " ", $7}'

]]`

[hanscees]

I have checked several things (lsof and ps and so on) but I see no way to detect (other than my eyes) that conky has stopped displaying on my display.

workaround
Only way to restart conky easily is to change the config file.

So for instance I could write a sceript to replace color4 = 'grey', with color4 = 'red',

like so:
sed -i 's/# color4/color5/' ~/.conkyrc

[GeneMosher]

Here are some of the settings I use to get the result showing at http://www.viewtouch.com/Desktop.png

background false
double_buffer
use_xft yes
own_window yes
own_window_class Conky
won_window_type normal
own_window_transparent yes
update interval 2

[blakemcbride]

Gene, please fill in the blank for your previous post:

The following config does ________________________________.

Thank you.

[whtyger]

Replacing the line

own_window_type = 'desktop',

with

own_window_type = 'normal',
own_window_hints = 'undecorated,below,skip_taskbar,sticky',

in the conky.config section may help.
BTW, it's a long lasting issue, see #399.

[mx-lin]

The issue has survived up to year 2023.
own_window_type = 'normal' : conky window disappears on "minimize all windows/show desktop".
own_window_type = 'desktop' : conky window disappears on click on desktop.
I'd prefer #1 because conky reappears when I do minimize, minimize (2 times).
I doubt it is conky's fault because I only have it in Openbox without window compositor.
Xfce with compositor does not have this issue.
For low RAM machines here, Openbox is about the only option, being twice as light as xfce.
Otherwise no problem with conky whatsoever, one of the greatest things in linux.

[ferdnyc]

As I mentioned in a comment on #399, personally with OpenBox (now in LXQT, previously I used LXDE) I use the dock window type, since I find it's the most compatible with OpenBox's window management. But to use that, you have to configure the placement/management in both Conky and OpenBox. This is the windowing section of my conky-config.lua:

        own_window = true,
        own_window_class = 'Conky',
        own_window_type = 'dock',
        own_window_hints = 'sticky,skip_taskbar,skip_pager,undecorated,below',
        own_window_transparent = false,
        own_window_colour = 'black',

And I combine that with these Dock configs in the OpenBox Configuration Manager:

[Caellian]

This can't be fixed:

• MATE uses caja for drawing desktop icons and menus.
• caja shows these as a fullscreen window in the background.
• both caja and conky are subject to same window ordering rules
  • they both show in background
  • last clicked window is displayed on top

The only workaround for this is changing the window type (as whtyger noted):

own_window_type = 'normal',
own_window_hints = 'undecorated,below,skip_taskbar,sticky',

Adding WM specific code to conky is a never-ending battle and not worth it IMO.

Future wanderers, see Window Configuration for more details.

Closing this issue.