I'm hoping you guys can help me out some more. You see i've tried both of your solutions (one as overide, one as desktop), even tried to have 2 configs (and had problems with that too). So I am hoping you guys can shine a little more light my way.
tint2rc, this basically creates a small panel to the right of my conky. I want the battery/wireless part on the far left of my screen though (so that the width should actually be 1280)
# Tint2 config file
# Generated by tintwizard (http://code.google.com/p/tintwizard/)
# For information on manually configuring tint2 see http://code.google.com/p/tint2/wiki/Configure
# To use this as default tint2 config: save as $HOME/.config/tint2/tint2rc
# Background definitions
# ID 1
rounded = 0
border_width = 0
background_color = #000000 100
border_color = #FFFFFF 100
# ID 2
rounded = 0
border_width = 0
background_color = #000000 100
border_color = #FFFFFF 100
# Panel
panel_monitor = all
panel_position = top left horizontal
panel_size = 290 20
panel_margin = 0 0
panel_padding = 0 0
panel_dock = 0
wm_menu = 0
panel_background_id = 0
# Taskbar
taskbar_mode = single_desktop
taskbar_padding = 0 0 0
taskbar_background_id = 0
#taskbar_active_background_id = 0
# Tasks
urgent_nb_of_blink = 7
task_icon = 1
task_text = 0
task_centered = 0
task_maximum_size = 20 32
task_padding = 0 0
task_background_id = 0
task_active_background_id = 0
task_icon_asb = 0 0 0
task_active_icon_asb = 0 -0 0
# Fonts
task_font = Sans 10
task_font_color = #FFFFFF 100
task_active_font_color = #FFFFFF 100
font_shadow = 0
# Systray
systray_padding = 0 0 0
systray_sort = right2left
systray_background_id = 0
# Tooltips
tooltip = 0
tooltip_padding = 0 0
tooltip_show_timeout = 0
tooltip_hide_timeout = 0
tooltip_background_id = 0
tooltip_font = Sans 12
tooltip_font_color = #FFFFFF 100
# Mouse
mouse_middle = none
mouse_right = none
mouse_scroll_up = none
mouse_scroll_down = none
# Battery
battery = 0
battery_low_status = 20
battery_low_cmd = notify-send "battery low"
bat1_font = Sans 12
bat2_font = Sans 12
battery_font_color = #FFFFFF 100
battery_padding = 0 0
battery_background_id = 0
# End of config
and
conky
# conky configuration
#
# The list of variables has been removed from this file in favour
# of keeping the documentation more maintainable.
# Check http://conky.sf.net for an up-to-date-list.
#
# For ideas about how to modify conky, please see:
# http://crunchbanglinux.org/forums/topic/59/my-conky-config/
#
# For help with conky, please see:
# http://crunchbanglinux.org/forums/topic/2047/conky-help/
#
# Enjoy! :)
##############################################
# Settings
##############################################
#avoid flicker
double_buffer yes
#own window to run simultanious 2 or more conkys
own_window yes
own_window_transparent yes
own_window_type override
own_window_hints undecorate,below,sticky,skip_taskbar,skip_pager
#borders
draw_borders no
border_margin 1
#shades
draw_shades no
#position
gap_x 25
gap_y 3
alignment top_left
#behaviour
update_interval 1
#colour
default_color FFFFFF
#default_shade_color 000000
own_window_colour 121314
#font
use_xft yes
xftfont proggyclean:pixelsize=11
#to prevent window from moving
use_spacer right
minimum_size 1280 0
#mpd
mpd_host localhost
mpd_port 6600
TEXT
${alignc}OS: ${color A0A0A0}CrunchBang9.04 | ${time %a, %d %B} ${color A0A0A0}${time %I:%M} | ${color} Up: ${color A0A0A0}${uptime_short} | ${color}Cpu: ${color A0A0A0}${cpu}% ${color} ${color A0A0A0} | ${color }Mem: ${color A0A0A0}$mem/$memmax – $memperc% ${color} ${color A0A0A0} | ${color }Bat: ${color A0A0A0}${font}${battery_percent}% ${battery_time}
and ill put up a screenshot in a bit, i have to get to class, lol.
At any rate, the conky is perfect, really all that needs to be done is for my tint2panel to stretch the full way across the screen, and let the conky be visible.
I hope you guys can edit it and get it working, or give me suggestions on what to do!
just call me...
~FSM~