What to do with Conky and plasma-desktop problem

[Martin Gräßlin]

On Saturday 08 January 2011 19:26:46 Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
> On Saturday, January 8, 2011, Marco Martin wrote:
> > On Saturday 08 January 2011, Aaron Lewis wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > 	I'm experiencing a problem recently , when i tried to open an text
> > > 	file
> > > 
> > > on "Folder View" ( Take full of desktop range ) , by right clicking and
> > > select "open With..." , and conky on my desktop disappears , so i have
> > > to "killall conky & restart conky" , and if i try open that text file
> > 
> > > again , it won't disappear again:
> > i guess the conky window is gone under the desktop window, given that
> > from the output seems to not have window manager hints defined really
> > anything could happen there ;)
> 
> yes, conky does fun things with its windows, and i'm not particularly
> interested in working around them.
Btw. most of the funny aspects of conky can probably be "fixed" either with a 
window specific rule or with a kwin script (could be a nice example case for 
it). That said, there is nothing we (plasma and/or kwin) can do about it. It's 
conky that is buggy and therefore conky needs to be fixed.
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