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This happens unintentionally:

What Puppy version are you using?

Conky has never been 100% perfect.

It has done this to me in Bookworm Pup64

I did this to fix it.

Run JWMdesk -> Conky settings -> Functions -> Restart

This looks like Fossapup64 9.5, if so, the transparent background is controlled by:
Menu>Desktop>JWMDESK Manager>Windows Effects. If that is disabled you will get a solid background.
Note that this would also apply to F96, but not to Bookworm

wizard

One thing that I have noticed.

Conky will show on the desktop and not be transparent.

After a little time passes, it changes to transparent.

All the settings for it are in the conkyrc file.

Easy way to access is by using the JWMDesk -> Conky Settings -> Edit conkyrc

Looking at Conky help, the section on transparency.

I do wonder why settings needed for transparency, in conkyrc, do not exactly match what the Conky help says to use??

@bigpup the transparency is sometimes only a simulation. It depends also on the compositor used.

the transparency is sometimes only a simulation

Think in Bookworm Pup64 RC, Conky does not use a compositor, instead it uses a technique to take a shot of the desktop behind it, then use that as the background for Conky, which gives the illusion of transparency.

wizard

wizard wrote: Wed Jun 28, 2023 12:28 pm

This looks like Fossapup64 9.5, if so, the transparent background is controlled by:
Menu>Desktop>JWMDESK Manager>Windows Effects. If that is disabled you will get a solid background.
Note that this would also apply to F96, but not to Bookworm

I haven't learned how to prevent losing Conky's background, it's triggered by common actions, like activating xlock, but restarting Window Effects restores it.

In some of my Puppy installs, to make Conky transparent, I had to open any folder, right-click on the "eye" icon on the Rox task bar to create thumbnails, click again to deactivate, and conky becomes transparent again.

In other computers, I removed the conkystart script from the /root/Startup/ folder, located in other folder, added a link to the desktop, and started it manually after the system is up for some seconds. That way, Conky starts transparent.

@fernan Autostart is a handy shortcut but simply restores the default backdrop from a blank pinboard background.

Thumbnails don't make a difference.

The remedy is still restarting Windows Effects but the solution is in the cause.

Like xlock, another trigger is the Exit -> Shut Down sequence.

I don't currently have a FossaPup installation, the following may work on FossaPup.

When I used to have problems with transparency, it was identified the actual program which sets the wallpaper is a program set_bg. (You can check if set_bg is in Fossapup by running which set_bg in a terminal). When run from a terminal it will set the wallpaper. If you use the existing image shown in the Puppypin. You can pass a different file name, which will also update the image stored in the PupyPin. Running this will set the wallpaper, which should then fix the transparency problem. Run the program in a terminal: set_bg /path/to/image

Example:
set_bg /usr/share/backgrounds/default.png

Edit: Running the program without passing an Image file to the program will wipe out the wallpaper. It is easily corrected by passing a valid file name or using the wallpaper update program in the Desktop Menu

In my case it was picom that I had to start to get conky background transparent
all other options didn't work

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houndstooth wrote: Tue Jun 27, 2023 3:11 pm

This happens unintentionally:

Hi @houndstooth

The transparency effect in conky is not real, it is rather a simulated effect where it copies the wallpaper and thus gives that appearance mentioned

Logically within puppy there is a program called picom that gives a transparency effect but it does not always work since within the conky file there are a series of configurations that can block the desired function

this is a sample of my conky.rc

Within your conky.rc they must be configured with the following parameters that I indicate with arrows (there are 4)

background = true, <------------
own_window_transparent = true, <------------
own_window_argb_value = 0, <------------
own_window_argb_visual = false, <------------

if you like you can install this pet that brings more variety of conkys

ConkyManEdt-1.13.8

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