For those who don't know, Conky are a type of widget/gadget script for linux. I found out about Conky Manager v2. So that made the process of starting them up easier. I can't the pseudo-transparent setting to work (pseudo-transparent makes only the background transparent but not the rest of the image). But I'm gonna blame that on how compositing works on XFCE. I also am having trouble configuring the weather conkies.
