Make Conky Transparent and movable
Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Conky is a light-weight system monitor. It’s in most the repo’s for most distributions. I personally like conky to look as if it’s part of my actual desktop. Unlike gdesklets or other desktop widget applications, i want it to feel like it’s part of the desktop itself, where it doesn’t get in the way of other windows as well as to adding some eye candy as well. But it’s also nice to have the ability to move it when necessary as well. There are times (or at least there are for me) when it might be nice to shift conky slightly, so I can see what’s happening without shifting other windows around.
To that end, I cooked up a .conkyrc file that displays a 200-pixel wide panel with the traditional system indicators in place, plus the settings that float it on the first workspace of my Fluxbox setup. This way it doesn’t get in the way of other windows, but it’s still moveable as well.