On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 9:11 AM, for.register for.register
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> On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 7:45 PM, for.register for.register
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> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 7:00 PM, for.register for.register
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> > <[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.
> >
>
> I got a temporary solution, that is precisely adjust the value of
> gap_x and gap_y
> to match the fvwmbotton position.
>
>
This sounds a lot like what was covered here:
http://fvwm.lair.be/viewtopic.php?f=43&t=767
Basically, try alignment top_left
ps: Oops did reply instead of reply-all the first time...
