I have configured a conky.

When I run it on KDE, it has a black background if that it works fine on Xfce.



Any ideas?

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/co ... e_with_KDE


own_window yes
own_window_argb_visual yes
own_window_type desktop
own_window_transparent yes
own_window_hints undecorated,below,sticky,skip_taskbar,skip_pager

This requires compositing, w/o compositing you've to copy the plasma wallpaper into the conky window background (explained in the link as well)

On my Kubuntu installation, I got transparency working by doing 2 things :

1. appropriate settings in .conkyrc (see below)
2. Changing the compositing type from 'XRender' to 'OpenGL 3.1' in KDE System Settings > Desktop Effects > Advanced

The "magic" combination of options in my .conkyrc that work are :

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own_window yes
own_window_title conky
own_window_hints undecorated,below,sticky,skip_taskbar,skip_pager
own_window_argb_visual yes
own_window_argb_value 0
own_window_type normal

Note that as long as you use the argb options, you do NOT need to inlude

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own_window_transparent