ExecutorElassus
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Joined: 11 Mar 2004
Posts: 1483
Location: Berlin, Germany
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 Posted: Sun Apr 06, 2025 9:21 am Post subject: how to get blurred conky background? |
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I have picom running in the background, and it works fine to blur things like the urxvt window, or tooltips. What it doesn't seem to be doing is blurring the background for my conky window. This is the relevant section of my ~/.conky/conkyrc_grey file:
| Code: | gap_x = 1850,
gap_y = 10,
minimum_height = 450,
maximum_width = 190,
own_window = true,
own_window_class = 'Conkyblurred',
own_window_title = 'conkymain',
own_window_argb_visual = true,
own_window_argb_value = 60,
own_window_type = 'desktop',
own_window_transparent = false,
own_window_hints = 'undecorated,sticky,skip_taskbar,skip_pager,below',
border_inner_margin = 0,
border_outer_margin = 0,
alignment = "tr",
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I set the class to "Conkyblurred" to try to use this script, but as that page notes it only works with certain WMs (I'm using FVWM).
So, what I'd like is for my conky window to have the same level of opacity as here (or maybe a bit less), but the root-window wallpaper behind it to be blurred. My understanding is that the most effective way to do this would be to use picom for the compositing, but I'm also open to using some dirty hack since nothing but the wallpaper is ever underneath the conky window. Is there some better way to do this? My picom.conf is basically the default one, and only refers to conky in this section:
| Code: | match = "name = 'Notification' || "
"class_g = 'Conky' || "
"class_g ?= 'Notify-osd' || "
"class_g = 'Cairo-clock' || "
"_GTK_FRAME_EXTENTS@";
shadow = false;
blur-background = true;
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(I added the "blur-background" line, to no avail since conky doesn't send any notifications.)
Is there some way to achieve this?
Cheers,
EE |
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