The battery thing was me explaining a problem I was having a while ago. When you have the bq27x00_battery module (comes in power kernel, it's what lets you see temperature and such) loaded, it seems to mess around with BME, so all the commands that fetch battery info (including the ones in healthcheck, netmon, and the Advanced Power Monitor replacement for the normal battery status menu applet) start getting glitchy, either underreporting the percent battery left, or completely failing to work (as in the case of Netmon). It doesn't have to do with Conky directly, which is what I was saying in case anyone was still paying attention to my earlier posts about such bugs.

As for the support for portrait by default - you don't really have to do any work, other than see if you can find a way for conky to run with rotation enabled as on or off based on a single line in the conf file (if possible, and if not, oh well, rotation can still be enabled manually for people who want it.) - I was just saying that if we have a conky command that will fetch device orientation (like healthcheck does), we can write our own layouts in the .conf file by enclosing everything in an if-then statement.

The implementation would still be for the user, as is writing your own .conf files if you don't like the default is already. My main question is: Do you know the code to fetch accelerometer data, and or to fetch the system's "device orientation" state on the N900 (The latter would make life easier, but the former works too)?