On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 7:00 PM, for.register for.register
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 6:16 PM, Thomas Adam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On 25/02/2008, for.register for.register <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > Hi, All
> > >
> > > I want to swallow conky into FvwmButton, but I found that
> > > FvwmButton Color override Swallowed Conky. I mean, after
> > > several seconds, conky figure disappeared, only leaved with
> > > the blank buttons with the FvwmButton background color.
> >
> > I suspect that conky doesn't like being reparented -- not all
> > applications do. I have seen reports of people being able to swallow
> > conky just fine in FvwmButtons. Which version of conky are you using?
> >
> > -- Thomas Adam
> >
> Thank you Thomas.
>
> My conky version is 1.4.9-r1.
> When I enlarge FvwmButtons window large enough, for example
> four times than conky normally required , I can see the conky, but
> the conky position in the larger window is not predictable, sometimes
> in the bottom, sometimes higher.
>
> My conky is a little complex, not a simple line as I found from
> the fvwm forum.
>
> Here is the the major part of my .conkyrc
> .....
> TEXT
> ${color purple}${time %G %b %e (%a)}$alignr${time %H:%M:%S}
> ${color orange}$sysname $kernel$alignr Uptime $uptime
> .....
Now, I can confirm that even the very simple conky configuration has
the same problem.
The problem probably only relates to the height of button. From my experience
Width of button doesnt effect the conky display. But the Height of button
is large enough can conky normal displays.
