Did you try it or is this speculation on your part It works 100% using gnome Xfce may need tweaks.
IF you read the Arch wiki it tells you the values to be changed for Xfce from gnome
Actually I haven’t found any that need to be changed for use on Gnome or XFCE - or even MATE and Cinnamon. I get lost on KDE (
) so I can’t say about that.
Apart from lua version / conky version troubles I haven’t seen problems with it in a few years - and that can be fixed with a conky rebuild as needed.
Between pairs of ``` (three backticks) please post the output suggested above for versions (-v) - and if you want, the conky that gives you trouble - I’ll be happy to troubleshoot it on my XFCE(s)
[andi@endeavouros ~]$ conky -v && lua -v
conky 1.11.5_pre compiled Tue 30 Jun 2020 05:45:40 AM UTC for Linux 5.6.8-arch1-1 x86_64
Compiled in features:
System config file: /etc/conky/conky.conf
Package library path: /usr/lib/conky
General:
- math
- hddtemp
- portmon
- IPv6
- Curl
- RSS
- Weather (METAR)
- wireless
- support for IBM/Lenovo notebooks
- nvidia
- builtin default configuration
- old configuration syntax
- Imlib2
- OSS mixer support
- apcupsd
- iostats
- ncurses
- Internationalization support
- PulseAudio
X11: - Xdamage extension
- Xinerama extension (virtual display)
- Xshape extension (click through)
- XDBE (double buffer extension)
- Xft
- ARGB visual
- Own window
Music detection:
- CMUS
- MPD
- MOC
Default values:
- Netdevice: eno1
- Local configfile: $HOME/.conkyrc
- Localedir: /usr/share/locale
- Maximum netdevices: 256
- Maximum text size: 16384
- Size text buffer: 256
Lua 5.4.0 Copyright © 1994-2020 Lua.org, PUC-Rio
Hey cool, i copied your conky.config in my conky.config and voila, its running and conky doesn´t disappear.
Only some modifications and then it is ready for working!
Thank you all for your help 
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Only one limitation here - there appear to be no bindings for lua (cairo graphics) in your version of conky. For contrast - here is my result for conky -v
conky -v
┌04:39:23 WD= [~]
└───freebird@nest ─▶$ conky -v
conky 1.11.5_pre compiled Sat 22 Aug 2020 02:33:18 AM EDT for Linux 5.8.1-arch1-1 x86_64
Compiled in features:
System config file: /etc/conky/conky.conf
Package library path: /usr/lib/conky
General:
* math
* hddtemp
* portmon
* IPv6
* Curl
* iconv
* wireless
* support for IBM/Lenovo notebooks
* builtin default configuration
* old configuration syntax
* Imlib2
* OSS mixer support
* apcupsd
* iostats
* ncurses
* Internationalization support
Lua bindings:
* Cairo
* Imlib2
* RSVG
X11:
* Xdamage extension
* Xinerama extension (virtual display)
* Xshape extension (click through)
* XDBE (double buffer extension)
* Xft
* ARGB visual
* Own window
Music detection:
* Audacious
* CMUS
* MPD
* MOC
Default values:
* Netdevice: eno1
* Local configfile: $HOME/.conkyrc
* Localedir: /usr/share/locale
* Maximum netdevices: 256
* Maximum text size: 16384
* Size text buffer: 256
If you’re going to be using conky for much, I suggest looking at the conky-cairo you find in the AUR - lua will run much better from it.
Feel free to ask if you have any config issues with the conky - I’ve modded a LOT of them (and that means I’ve seen most of the resulting foulups too)
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This is ok on version side…
The culprit on what you showed at first was this simple quotes marks missing here :
own_window_hints = 'undecorated,below,sticky,skip_taskbar,skip_pager',
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own_window_hints = undecorated,below,sticky,skip_taskbar,skip_pager,
This in my conky i post yesterday.
As @FLVAL said, you’re missing the single quotes, which may have been the issue. I overlooked it yesterday, but he’s right. The version @mandog posted had the quotes, which may be why it worked correctly.
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Oh no 
Im a idiot, you are right. now i gave the hints quotes and the issue is solved!
thank you so much @FLVAL and @bkaplan for your help. you are the best 
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Can somebody set the answer of @FLVAL as solution. i can´t do this! Thanks
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Done! 
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