I tried to fix a conky on my desktop but I have small problem in conky background color. I want to change the color background to transparent and I tried so many times and it doesn't fix.
Here is a picture of what I have on desktop:
and my conkyrc file:
https://pastebin.com/USgZ3C45
Now how can I change the background conky to transparent?
Best Answer
Change:
To:
At least this worked for my conky display:
Conky script
In comments it was asked to share my
conky
script. It was just changed a couple days ago so I've updated the.gif
above and included the edited (stripped out experimental code /comments) script below:Please keep in mind conky scripts change frequently depending on what project you are working on. Two days ago the focus was Why is internet upload so high when I don't actually upload much? and I added the network bandwidth real time display section. As such you may see conky displays posted by me in other questions that don't reflect the code as of today (September 5, 2017).
Conky Script Revision for comments
Sarah mentioned temperature wasn't working. Search for
${hwmon 2 temp 1}
and replace it with${hwmon 0 temp 1}
.She also mentioned networking wasn't working. Search for
eth0
and replace it with your network interface name. To find your network interface name use:In my case #2 is the Ethernet interface name and #3 is the Wifi interface name.
If you are using vnStat you can get a list of Network interface names it is monitoring: