Conky with Kubuntu 12.10

Sun Mar 31 16:59:19 UTC 2013

On 28/03/13 17:54, Peter Hillier-Brook wrote:
> Having re-discovered conky with the installation of lxle (great
> lightweight distro for older machines, http://www.lxle.net ) I installed
> under Kubuntu and discovered that setting the background to
> "transparent" has no discernible effect. Any thoughts from the conky
> cognoscenti?
>
> Peter HB

It looks like a KDE problem as conky runs fine with the same 
configuration under Ubuntu 12.10. Any thought, anyone?