I can vouch for the issue on Feisty (7.04), base install. The workaround takes care of it, although I haven't found a way for conky to peacefully coexist with Nautilus desktop icons.
The conky faq (http://conky.sourceforge.net/faq.html) complains that Ubuntu developers are inattentive, and the conky packages distributed with Ubuntu are old... however, the version shipped with Feisty is the same as the version currently listed on the site (1.4.5). -- [Dapper LiveCD Beta2] conky flickers https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/42467 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is a direct subscriber. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs