Put Conky behind the desktop icons

Posted by Michal Gow on Super User See other posts from Super User or by Michal Gow
Published on 2012-09-29T21:32:43Z Indexed on 2012/09/30 9:40 UTC
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Maybe I am trying do something impossible, but after hours of Googling I didn't get 100% answer yet.

So - it is possible put Conky on Desktop backgroud (behind desktop icons)?

The usual config:

own_window yes
own_window_type normal # (desktop, override) - I have the same result for all this attributes
own_window_transparent yes
own_window_hints undecorated,below,skip_taskbar,sticky,skip_pager

Is giving me Conky with (pseudo)transparent background in front of icons (they are completely hidden behind it, even if in background of Conky is shown background image), while I am trying achieve opposite...

My system:

SuSE 11.4
KDE 4.4 (Release 3)
x86_64

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