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You mean conky? I think (?) the only time one does *not* have that is when choosing lessram or loweram maybe (forgot). Or do you mean another separate utility. What happens if you type
conky &
Alternatively, can you find a link to what it is that you want displayed (and a screenie of what you have)?
Thanks.
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07-07-2025, 07:40 PM
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Thanks. I probably mean Conky but it isn't enabled on my system.
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Thank you.
When I run "conky &" from terminal the Conky screen doesn't come up, but it says this (I didn't manage to take a screen shot):
$ conky &
[1] 2752
system@prompt:~
$ Conky: forked to background, pid is 2753
Conky: desktop window (15f) is root window
Conkdy: window type - normal
Conky: drawing to created window (0x2000001)
Conky: drawing to double buffer
I'm using a full installtion, as far as I'm aware without the "lowram" boot option.
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Having trouble recreating this but found much variable behavior on different systems. I think you have to play with the .conkyrc file, start, kill, re-try, etc.
My best guess is you change own_window normal to own_window desktop
Between that, double_buffering, transparent, and background, one can make many things happen. Sometimes a black background but it runs (until one clicks the mouse on the desktop which crashes it, etc.).