Make conky work with LXDE desktop manager.


It’s reported by many users that conky doesn’t work with desktop management provided by PCManFM. Personally I do not use Conky, but many of our users use it. I’ve been seeking for a solution for our users but didn’t find one. Recently I saw a blog post containing a screenshot with working conky + pcmanfm. So I mailed the author Dom and he shared his config file. I post it here in the hope that this can help our users. However, I’m not sure if it’s guaranteed to work. Try it yourself if you use conky.

This is from the blog: http://sixpack75.blogspot.com/2010/03/lubuntu-1004-der-erste-testrechner.html#comments

use_xft yes
xftfont Dejavu Sans:size=8
xftalpha 1
own_window yes
own_window_type normal
own_window_transparent yes
own_window_hints undecorated,below,sticky,skip_taskbar,skip_pager
own_window_hints below
#update_interval 1.0
double_buffer yes
alignment top_right
gap_x 5
gap_y 18
maximum_width 190
#default_color white
#poll
update_interval 6
total_run_times 0