I had a very hard time getting conky to stay on my desktop. If I clicked on the desktop, the program would disappear. It seems that
own_window yesneeded to be
own_window no
My full ~/.conkyrc after the jump
# set to yes if you want Conky to be forked in the background background yes # Use Xft? use_xft yes # Xft font when Xft is enabled #xftfont Trebuchet MS:size=10 xftfont Sans:size=8 # Text alpha when using Xft xftalpha 1 # Update interval in seconds update_interval 1.0 # This is the number of times Conky will update before quitting. # Set to zero to run forever. total_run_times 0 own_window no own_window_transparent yes #own_window_type override own_window_type desktop #own_window_type normal #use this if you want a nice shadow to appear around conky # If own_window is yes, these window manager hints may be used own_window_hints undecorated,below,sticky,skip_taskbar,skip_pager # Use double buffering (reduces flicker, may not work for everyone) double_buffer yes # Minimum size of text area minimum_size 200 200 # Maximum width maximum_width 240 # Draw shades? draw_shades yes # Draw outlines? draw_outline no # Draw borders around text draw_borders no # Draw borders around graphs draw_graph_borders no # Stippled borders? # stippled_borders 8 # border margins # border_margin 2 # border width # border_width 1 # Default colors and also border colors default_color white default_shade_color black default_outline_color white # Text alignment, other possible values are commented #alignment top_left alignment top_right #alignment bottom_left #alignment bottom_right #alignment none # Gap between borders of screen and text # same thing as passing -x at command line gap_x 12 # Originally gap_y 12 gap_y 35 # Subtract file system buffers from used memory? no_buffers yes # set to yes if you want all text to be in uppercase uppercase no # number of cpu samples to average # set to 1 to disable averaging cpu_avg_samples 2 # Force UTF8? note that UTF8 support required XFT override_utf8_locale no ############################################## ############################################## TEXT SYSTEM INFO: ${hr} Host$alignr$nodename IP$alignr${addr eth1} Uptime$alignr$uptime RAM$alignr$mem/$memmax Swap usage$alignr$swap/$swapmax Disk usage$alignr${fs_used /}/${fs_size /} Processor$alignr${cpu cpu1}% ${hr} $color Inbound: ${tcp_portmon 1 32767 count} Outbound: ${tcp_portmon 32768 61000 count}${alignr}ALL: ${tcp_portmon 1 65535 count} ${color #ddaa00}Inbound Connection ${alignr} Local Service/Port$color ${tcp_portmon 1 32767 rhost 0} ${alignr} ${tcp_portmon 1 32767 lservice 0} ${tcp_portmon 1 32767 rhost 1} ${alignr} ${tcp_portmon 1 32767 lservice 1} ${tcp_portmon 1 32767 rhost 2} ${alignr} ${tcp_portmon 1 32767 lservice 2} ${tcp_portmon 1 32767 rhost 3} ${alignr} ${tcp_portmon 1 32767 lservice 3} ${tcp_portmon 1 32767 rhost 4} ${alignr} ${tcp_portmon 1 32767 lservice 4} ${tcp_portmon 1 32767 rhost 5} ${alignr} ${tcp_portmon 1 32767 lservice 5} ${color #ddaa00}Outbound Connection ${alignr} Remote Service/Port$color ${tcp_portmon 32768 61000 rhost 0} ${alignr} ${tcp_portmon 32768 61000 rservice 0} ${tcp_portmon 32768 61000 rhost 1} ${alignr} ${tcp_portmon 32768 61000 rservice 1} ${tcp_portmon 32768 61000 rhost 2} ${alignr} ${tcp_portmon 32768 61000 rservice 2} ${tcp_portmon 32768 61000 rhost 3} ${alignr} ${tcp_portmon 32768 61000 rservice 3} ${tcp_portmon 32768 61000 rhost 4} ${alignr} ${tcp_portmon 32768 61000 rservice 4} ${tcp_portmon 32768 61000 rhost 5} ${alignr} ${tcp_portmon 32768 61000 rservice 5}