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Logansfury

Hybrid platform + conky success!!

Hey everyone,

I wanted to see if my Mint 21.3 XFCE box could run the conky v1.19.8 from Commander Shepard that has mouse click support. It took two days of working with ChatGPT, but I now have 1.19.8 compiled with cairo, lua and other essentials, it uses an edit of Koentje's latest transparent-image.lua with alpha channel to display fully opaque images on fully transparent backgrounds, the normal window type is floating above Komorebi's live desktop display, and I just got a working .lua for volume increase and decrease when clicking on designated screen coordinants. I have my click-areas above volume button images.

I put all the relevant info and files up on a new GitHub repository:

https://github.com/Logansfury/Linux-Mint-21.3-XFCE-Conky-v1.19.8-hybrid-w-mouse-click-support

Posted Feb 28, 2026, 1:19 PM UTC

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