matts76 finally answered my PM, the procedure is to install "Live wallpaper", go to your phone settings and click it. Now, click a desktop, choose category "unknown" and select "conky".
It works fine except it launches conky directly instead of using conky.sh, so the default config file is always loaded, even if you have a customized one in your MyDocs. I am thinking the easiest solution is just to delete the conky.conf in /etc/Conky and create a symlink to the MyDocs one. Then again, some people may prefer to have two configs - one for the desktop, and one for the windowed version.

Here's a screenshot, the default conf i provided actually works very well, only problem i see is the right aligned text is off the right edge of the screen by a pixel or two. Maybe a bug in the live wallpaper or something, should be easy to work around. The bargraph text is also shifted but its not as bad, at least is still readable.


If you're wondering, the conky process is killed any time the desktop goes off the screen, so it's not a battery killer. Just the history graphs start over each time.