Cannot open jgmenu by right click on Conky

ninja · October 30, 2021, 7:43pm

Nothing happens when I try to open jgmenu by right clicking on Conky.
Here is a few properties in my conky.conf file.

	own_window = true,
	own_window_type = 'desktop',
	own_window_transparent = true,
	own_window_hints = 'undecorated,below,sticky,skip_taskbar,skip_pager',
	own_window_colour = '#000000',
	own_window_class = 'Conky',
	own_window_title = 'Mabox Quakeworld Monitor Conky',

What am I doing wrong?

napcok · October 30, 2021, 7:55pm

Thats interesting
I have always been convinced that Conky is a kind of window and it is impossible to perform window manager actions on it …
Thanks to your question, I consulted the documentation … and it turns out that I was wrong.
Try to set:

own_window = false;

I don’t know if this will have any unwanted side effects.

Hint:
To quickly edit running Conky go to: Settings Menu Super + s → Conky → Edit running Conky…
This will open Geany with appropriate Conky config, after saving changes Conky will reload automatically.

ninja · October 30, 2021, 8:04pm

napcok,
Thank you for responding to my question so quickly.
I set that to false and reload conky. But, conky does not show up at all.
When I switch it back to true and reload, conky is back.

napcok · October 30, 2021, 8:07pm

For me this works… sort of
Works with Conky with shortcuts (bottom left)… but when i try with top-right it behaves strange… some flickering occurs.
So I think best way is to click on desktop not on Conky

ninja · October 30, 2021, 8:21pm

Thank you for looking in to it. That’s interesting. My Conky happens to be on top-right. I am coming from BunsenLabs and it’s my habit to right click on Conky as rest of my desktop is covered by bunch of windows.

It’s time for me to drop old habit and develop new one.
Cheers!

napcok · October 30, 2021, 8:24pm

Maybe something is wrong with those Conky configs shipped with Mabox then…
I will have a look at Bunsenlabs when they release new version based on Debian 11

ninja · October 31, 2021, 12:10am

Thanks! It will be ironic to find out if the new version based on Debian 11 behaves like Mabox. I am currently using BL (Lithium) on Debian 10.

I am considering to hop off of BL as it does not support newer generation of CPUs out of the box. I am using Mabox for a few months. So far everything works out the way I like except this right-clicking --issue-- feature.

napcok · October 31, 2021, 8:13am

I just found this discussion on Conky’s Github:

github.com/brndnmtthws/conky

how to make conky consistenly pass clicks to the root window

opened 11:56PM - 08 Sep 16 UTC

closed 04:52PM - 07 Sep 18 UTC

Lew-Rockwell-Fan

The click-thru-to-root-window behaviour seems to have changed in upgrading from …Conky 1.9.0 under a stripped down Ubuntu 14.04 with Openbox as the only DE to Conky 1.10.1 in a similar stripped down Ubuntu 16.04. I want to regain the previous behaviour. In the past I've been able to get conky to pass mouse clicks through to the root window. My ~/.conkyrc that works fine in previous Ubuntus fails to do this in the new LTS 16.04. I start it with "conky -o" in Openbox's autostart.sh, which is a script that runs under /bin/sh, which in 'buntus is linked to /bin/dash (and does so even if you put a shebang to the contrary in it) immediately after the window manager Openbox starts. Strangely, this doesn't work, if I start Conky later, from a terminal. If it gets killed, I have to restart Openbox for it to work right. Obviously I'm not using a regular Ubuntu. I build a real light system from the mini.iso with plain Openbox, no further DE per se. No Gnome, no Unity, no LXDE, just Openbox. `- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -` Routing error and output to a log, this is what happens under Ubuntu 14.04 with Conky 1.9.0: Conky: forked to background, pid is 3244 Conky: desktop window (2b7) is root window Conky: window type - normal Conky: drawing to created window (0xe00001) Conky: drawing to double buffer `- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -` Under the same circumstances in 16.04 with Conky 1.10.1 it logs this: conky: Syntax error (/home/j/.conkyrc:1: '=' expected near 'yes') while reading config file. conky: Assuming it's in old syntax and attempting conversion. conky: desktop window (497) is root window conky: window type - normal conky: drawing to created window (0xc00001) conky: drawing to double buffer conky: forked to background, pid is 4253 `- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -` Assuming the ":1" in "Syntax error (/home/j/.conkyrc:1:" meant the error was in the first line (is that right?), I tried changing "yes" to "= yes", but it didn't make any difference. I also tried the new conf file in config instead and tried all the window type statements. I haven't changed my openbox rc.xml so I don't think the change is there. I can try influencing the conky "window" with statements in openbox's rc.xml or by hitting it with wmctrl or xdotool, but I haven't a clue how to use those to bring about this click-through property, which is something I haven't seen in any other context. How can I make it pass the clicks through consistently? I hope I haven't been exploiting an undocumented accidental "feature" that has been dropped, because it has been an extremely useful feature for me in the past. If nobody suggests anything else, I may see if I can force the system to use an older version of conky. The Ubuntu repo doesn't have older versions, so I downloaded the tar for 1.9 and extracted it. "README.git-version" says I need aclocal to build it. That's in the package "eclipse-cdt-autotools" which consists of over a hundred files taking almost half a gig of drive space. Wow. If that's what it takes, I'll do it, but it seems surprising enough to mention. My entire 16.04 is only 3.3 gigs. Thanks.

ninja · October 31, 2021, 1:51pm

I found another thread which ends with this comment. how to make conky consistenly pass clicks to the root window #320 · Issue #654 · brndnmtthws/conky · GitHub