How do I make Conky stick to my desktop?
Quick Solution:
- Add a ‘own_window_type dock’ line in the conkyrc.
- Install devilspie.
- Create a rule in devilspie with the ‘match’ pattern window_name ‘contains’ conky (no capital c – it matters).
- as actions, select ‘skip_tasklist’,’unminimize’ and if you want to have it on all workspaces, also ‘stick’.
- Thats it.
How do you run Conky in the background?
Use the following commands to start, stop or restart Conky.

- Start Conky. Execute the following command to start Conky in a background: $ conky -d Conky: forked to background, pid is 11122.
- Stop Conky. Execute the following command to stop Conky:
- Restart Conky.
- Setup Conky To Run On Startup.
How do I stop my Conky from flickering?
Q: Conky won’t stop flickering
- You can try enabling double-buffer. Conky’s double-buffer option uses the X double-buffer extension to provide a flicker-free Conky.
- Conky can run in windowed mode, meaning that instead of drawing the the root window it draws to it’s own window.
How do I update Conky?
Open command terminal
- Open command terminal.
- Run system update command.
- Finally, use sudo apt install conky-all command to install the full version of the Conky system monitor on your Ubuntu 20.04 or other similar Linux.
- Once the installation is completed to start it type- conky &
How do you set up Conky?

Here are the steps for installation:
- Open up a terminal window ([Ctrl]+[Alt]+[t] does the trick nicely)
- Issue the command sudo apt-get install conky-all.
- Type your sudo password and hit Enter.
- When prompted, accepted the installation by typing y.
- Allow the installation to complete.
Where is the Conky config?
/etc/conky/conky.conf
Running & Configuration That’s the default conky configuration. The file can be found in /etc/conky/conky. conf.
How do I install Conky widgets?
How to install Conky System Monitor on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS
- Open command terminal.
- Run system update command.
- Finally, use sudo apt install conky-all command to install the full version of the Conky system monitor on your Ubuntu 20.04 or other similar Linux.
- Once the installation is completed to start it type- conky &