After starting conky the backdrop image dies and the backdrop goes white. The desktop menu (right click menu) still works though. OT - What happened to the option to have or not have desktop menu icons? I see the option is still currently available in the menu panel plugin, but not in xfdesktop? ~patrick Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. start conky 2. watch bg image get replaced w/ white bg 3. kill conky and start the xfdesktop settings manager to refresh the bg image Actual Results: this is redundant, please view details above Expected Results: the backdrop should'nt be going white when starting conky
ok, my bad i should have done more research. it seems w/ the current revision (and i'm guessing older versions of it) of xfdesktop you need to set up conky so that it creates it's own window instead of using the desktop. it would be great to figure out why in older revisions of xfdesktop this didn't need to enabled. the revision of xfdesktop that doesn't need that feature enabled in conky i'm not exactly sure of, but i did the check out on and around Feb 24/25 sorry for the bother, thanx... ~patrick
Sorry, I'm not really concerned about whether or not other apps can draw on the desktop properly.
When using Xfce 4.4 beta 1... You should set conky to draw to its own window. This works fine, as long as you don't left-click on the desktop. If you left-click on the desktop, conky gets pushed behind xfdesktop (the wallpaper). You can turn off the ability for XFCE to manage the desktop, but then you loose features like desktop icons. I'm not the one to decide... But it would make more sense for the xfdesktop 'window' to stay on the bottom, so that it doesn't cover up other windows like the one in Conky.
It's not up to xfdesktop. If both xfdesktop and conky say "I want to stay on the bottom", then the WM has to decide which one goes to the bottom. The one that gets clicked more recently will get pulled as far to the top of the stack as its allowed, so conky will get pushed back. I don't support conky by any means, so... sorry, but tough luck.