For Lubuntu 14 Users….Rock your Conky

Lubuntu uses an LXDE desktop environment. LXDE is built on Openbox and sometimes has issues with composting. I had Compton and I installed xcompmgr via Synaptic. (I bet I don’t need both) and I made them start at boot by writing:

@compton -b &

@xcompmgr -n

in the autostart file (/~/username/.config/lxsession/Lubuntu)

I had some window drawing issues until I fixed my conky……

In the conckyrc file one must fiddle with the own window configuration;

# Create own window instead of using desktop (required in nautilus)

own_window yes

own_window_transparent yes

own_window_type desktop

own_window_hints undecorated,below,sticky,skip_taskbar,skip_pager

own_window_argb_visual no

own_window_argb_value 255

own_window_argb_visual yes was the original setting.

The conky was downloaded from Here