Exactly. Actually, the only good thing about the original conky manager is to be able to click to see conkies, then steal the scripts and delete the manager.
It’s much better to use your own folders and paths and launch your conky/conkies with a script.
Simply running conky from krunner (something I haven’t done for a while) brings up a decent basic desktop config which works okay too.
The most annoying aspect of conky manager is that it doesn’t do anything useful - it doesn’t offer to ‘import and help correct’ older configs. The new software doesn’t have any configs with it.
Here’s one.
I used kwin-effect-osdclock
to give me a permanent semi-transparent digital clock that would show on top of fullscreen apps (like when watching movies etc). Now that it’s broken, I use a conky. It doesn’t draw over fullscreen, but if you use krohnkite to tile and undecorate windows, it has the same effect.
Here’s the clock:
conky.config = {
-- Conky settings
background = true,
update_interval = 1,
double_buffer = true,
no_buffers = true,
imlib_cache_size = 10,
-- Sampling
diskio_avg_samples = 2,
cpu_avg_samples = 2,
-- Window specifications
gap_x = 20,
gap_y = 20,
minimum_width = 0, minimum_height = 0,
alignment = 'top_right',
own_window = true,
own_window_type = 'dock',
own_window_transparent = true,
own_window_argb_visual = true,
own_window_argb_value = 70,
own_window_hints = 'above, undecorated,sticky,skip_taskbar,skip_pager',
own_window_class = 'override',
border_inner_margin = 0,
border_outer_margin = 0,
graphics = 'settings',
draw_shades = false,
default_shade_color = '#484848',
draw_outline = true,
default_outline_color = '#333',
draw_borders = false,
draw_graph_borders = false,
default_graph_width = 40, default_graph_height = 80,
show_graph_scale = true,
show_graph_range = false,
text = 'settings',
use_xft = true,
xftalpha = 0.5,
font = 'Droid Sans:size=10',
text_buffer_size = 256,
override_utf8_locale = true,
useful = 'shortenings',
short_units = true,
pad_percents = 2,
top_name_width = 30,
color = 'scheme',
default_color = '#FFFFFF',
color1 = '#FFFFFF',
color2 = '#2dcba5',-- teal
color3 = '#16a085',-- teal2
color4 = '#FFFFFF',
color5 = '#DCDCDC',
--DCDCDC
color6 = '#FFFFFF',
color7 = '#aaaaaa',
color8 = '#A9CFF4',
--A9CFF4
-- iphone wlp0s20u12
};
conky.text = [[
${alignc}${color7}${font arial rounded mt bold:size=32}${time %H:%M}]];
You can hash out or delete specifics that don’t fit your computer. Opening the file with code
gives me colour previews (i.e. you could make slight mods to suit a ‘Nordic’ or a ‘Gruv’ or a ‘Creamy’ desktop profile/theme).
Outlined text shows well on light/dark backgrounds (if you use a slideshow).
Here’s a screenshot that shows how the conky actually looks (here I’m actually editing another version for my ‘Gruv’ PlasmaConfigSaver scheme to tune the color).
Annoyingly it isn’t click-through and can be in the way of menu’s, so I mapped the launcher script to a mouse gesture. So if I’m up in the corner and I can’t click my Firefox Joplin icon or something (in tiling mode, the window is maximised) then I draw a ‘7’ which removes the clock, do my click, then draw another 7 to put it back.