[SOLVED] Odd Behavior with Conky in Phoenix

[parnote]

I tried installing Conky on my laptop running a fully updated Phoenix 2009.4. I chose Conky because it is light weight and not a resource hog. I also d/l'd a Conky rc file. And Conky runs exceptionally well ... except for one thing.

Conky causes my desktop icons to disappear ... but not permanently. If I "mouse over" where the icons should be, they show up, and then disappear when my mouse moves off of the icon. Mind you, I don't have but four icons on my desktop (I hate lots of icons on my desktop ... it reminds me too much of Windows where everything puts its own icon on your desktop).

However, if I kill Conky, my desktop icons are back, showing up normally.

Is there a fix for this that I am missing?

Thanks!

parnote

EDIT: Here are the computer specs:

IBM ThinkPad T23
Pentium 3, 1.13 GHz
512 MB Memory
8 MB Video Memory
Savage S3 Video

[parnote]

OK ... I found a fix that works beautifully, allowing me to display/run Conky while maintaining my desktop icons.

In your .conkyrc file, add the following lines:

own_window yes
own_window_type override
own_window_transparency yes
own_window_hints undecorated,below,sticky,skip_taskbar,skip_pager

If you are having a problem with flickering of your Conky window, add the following line to your .conkyrc file:

double_buffer yes

Now, I have my Conky running, with a transparent background.

parnote