How to fix: conky disappears after click on desktop or other window?

Question

How to make conky window stay visible after changing the focus, but with desktop icons visible as well?

Solution 1

Edit conky configuration file, i.e. open in gedit from the terminal:

sudo -H gedit /etc/conky/conky.conf

This worked for me:

own_window yes
own_window_type normal

This worked too, but made desktop icons not visible at all or blinking

own_window no
own_window_type desktop

I have also modified conky to be movable by removing undecorated from:

own_window_hints

Solution 2

I just removed the line own_window_type desktop entirely from the .conkyrc file and now conky stays put when I click the desktop in Ubuntu 15.10 with Unity. Why? I dont know. :)

I only use:

own_window_class Conky
own_window yes
own_window_transparent yes
own_window_hints undecorated,sticky,skip_taskbar,skip_pager,below

Solution 3

Alternately...

In CompizConfig Settings Manager, deselect

General > General Options > Hide Skip Taskbar Windows

Comments

[Tachyons]

Possible duplicate of How to get conky to stay on the desktop

[George Dirac]

This makes conky disappear after clicking desktop. Unlike own_window_type normal

[Martin Thornton]

Removed the line from which file?

[Fuzzybuzz]

From the .conkyrc file. I used Conky Manager and edited the .conkyrc file from the Conky Manager program and just removed the own_window_type desktop (or own_window_type normal) alltogether and that works fine on my system.