O well, it's me again, your friendly neighborhood troll... (how many threads are too many??) It's not my fault Linux is so complicated...
And I do have so many questions. For example, I was wondering and pondering why my Conky turned grey after just a moment in kde. Like this - the upper image is from xfce and the bottom one from kde. And it's not just this conky, but every other conky as well.
Looked everywhere, tried to understand the script, tried to figure possible differences between xfce and kde. The solution was embarrassingly simple - I had found a fancy way to dim the inactice windows, so that they were in the dark and only the active one shone out.
Apparently, the conky is considered an inactive window as well. When I deactivated the effect in System Settings > Workspace Behaviour > Desktop Effects > Focus, the conky was back to normal.
Duh!
Not quite consistent in itself, though, because the conky immediately grows dim, even when it's the only thing on the desktop, whereas an open window can sit there a long, long while and not change at all. It only goes dim when you open another one. Seems illogical to me, but fact is the conky is back to normal the moment the dim-effect is turned off.
By the way, I'm quite sure I didn't discover the dim-inactive-window-effect in system settings. I'm very sure it was elsewhere, where I could define how dark the inactive window would become, but unfortunately, I've forgotten where that was. I hopped around so much in that thing....
Of course I'd love to have that nifty dim-effect back, but I also want to have a shiny, undimmed conky.
How would I go about that?
And I do have so many questions. For example, I was wondering and pondering why my Conky turned grey after just a moment in kde. Like this - the upper image is from xfce and the bottom one from kde. And it's not just this conky, but every other conky as well.
Looked everywhere, tried to understand the script, tried to figure possible differences between xfce and kde. The solution was embarrassingly simple - I had found a fancy way to dim the inactice windows, so that they were in the dark and only the active one shone out.
Apparently, the conky is considered an inactive window as well. When I deactivated the effect in System Settings > Workspace Behaviour > Desktop Effects > Focus, the conky was back to normal.
Duh!
Not quite consistent in itself, though, because the conky immediately grows dim, even when it's the only thing on the desktop, whereas an open window can sit there a long, long while and not change at all. It only goes dim when you open another one. Seems illogical to me, but fact is the conky is back to normal the moment the dim-effect is turned off.
By the way, I'm quite sure I didn't discover the dim-inactive-window-effect in system settings. I'm very sure it was elsewhere, where I could define how dark the inactive window would become, but unfortunately, I've forgotten where that was. I hopped around so much in that thing....
Of course I'd love to have that nifty dim-effect back, but I also want to have a shiny, undimmed conky.
How would I go about that?
