can conky display in an ordinary window?

[jlittle]

(conky enthusiasts often post at KFN, and searching has been no help)

Can conky display in an ordinary desktop window, that I can move around?

Normally my desktop is covered with lots of windows, so having conky on the desktop is useless, and having it display over any window is a nuisance. Ideally it would live in a window, that I can set to always on top, or not, that moves itself off the window with focus.

[claydoh]

There are various window-specific options

Options are all related to own_window settings in the config
SO, you just need to edit the file, and change it to:

own_window_type = 'normal'

http://conky.sourceforge.net/config_settings.html

[MoonRise]

Do you mean something like this? I can grab the window bar and move it around.

[MoonRise]

There are various window-specific options

Options are all related to own_window settings in the config
SO, you just need to edit the file, and change it to:

own_window_type = 'normal'

http://conky.sourceforge.net/config_settings.html

per Claydoh - Yes but also you need to make sure that these are not set: own_window_hints = 'undecorated,below,sticky,skip_taskbar,skip_pager' ,

[Don B. Cilly]

Correct. Just change that line to own_window_hints = '',
where " is two single quotes, and the trailing comma is needed.

[jlittle]

Thank you. I had tried own_window_type = 'normal' but I must have had one of the offending hints when I did.

[chimak111]

If it's a minimal conky you can even fit it on the plasma panel as in this image.

I have my panel always visible.