How do you make conky appear behind the folders on the desktop?

Solution 1:

I have to admit that this whole thing is to answer the question I had yesterday, for all those who might have it in the future!

so the code above is the same as the one I'm using right now.

but just before I got on to write this to the forum, I was messing with the keyboard shortcuts in my settings.

I found this shortcut:

and I was curious about what exactly this would do since I haven't used it before. I used the shortcut, which made all the windows disappear, then used it again, to bring them back. As soon as the windows came back I noticed that the folders that had been behind conky were more visible. I was sure it was a trick of the mind! but sure enough, the folders were now in front of conky!

for whatever reason, this shortcut fixes a problem that the internet hasn't been able to solve.

just to clarify, this is by no means a permanent fix. it has to be done almost every time conky launches. which is great if you leave your computer running for days, and weeks on end. but it does fix a problem that seemed impossible before.

I hope this becomes useful to other people and that it will be easily found by others. thanks for helping me find this answer with the knowledge that it is a problem for many of us users.

have a nice day!

ps - if you are running conky from the terminal it does remove the terminals connection with it.

pps - if you edit the .conkyrc file and don't have "disable_auto_reload" set to true, then conky will reload in front of the folders. but the shortcut can be used to fix this again.