[SOLVED] Trouble Making Conky Bottom Panel

Question

I'm trying to create a bottom panel with conky that will replace LXDE's panel.  Right now I have everything set up adequately except for having the conky panel appear on the bottom.  The conky manpage mentions the panel setup under own_window_type, and says that it follows the lead of the alignment variable, so I figured setting the alignment before setting own_window_type may fix the issue, but I haven't had any such luck.
.conkyrc
#WINDOW OPTIONS
double_buffer yes
own_window yes
own_window_transparent no
alignment bottom_left
own_window_type panel
own_window_hints undecorate,sticky,skip_taskbar,skip_pager
#POSITION
#gap_x 0
#gap_y 0
#BORDERS
draw_borders no
#SHADES
draw_shades no
#BEHAVIOR
update_interval 1
#COLOR
own_window_colour 000000
default_color 1793D1
color1 FFFFFF
#FONT
use_xft yes
uppercase yes
use_spacer left
pad_percents 3
xftfont Anonymous Pro:pixelsize=11
# Expands to the length of screen ()
minimum_size 1600
maximum_width 1600
TEXT
${color}CPU:${color1} ${cpu}% ${cpubar 6,40} // ${color}MEM:${color1} $mem/$memmax ${membar 6,40}\
${alignr}${color}${time %B %d}${color1} |${time %_I:%M %p}
I apologize if this is the wrong place to be posting in about conky assistance, but this section of the forum has helped me a ton in getting familiar with Arch, so its my safe guess for now.  Any direction on asking elsewhere would be equally appreciated.
Last edited by mellowmaroon (2012-06-15 15:15:46)

Answer 1

own_window_type must be panel, otherwise it doesn't behave like a panel.  And adding "above" to the hints instead of "below" doesn't fix it.
Maybe the other options have some effect.  When i tried setting "own_window" to "no", conky would disregard my transparency option and just make it transparent.