I also tried this program and with just enter conky in a xterm I get the following:
Conky: desktop window (400007) is subwindow of root window (135)
Conky: drawing to desktop window
Conky: drawing to single buffer
X Error of failed request: BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes)
Major opcode of failed request: 55 (X_CreateGC)
Serial number of failed request: 157
Current serial number in output stream: 291
With conky -h I find also like you said that with conky -o it opens it's own window.
I don't know if that is a Elive issue because for some reason it doesn't reproduce the $~/.conkyrc config file , I guess it should do that, dunno why it doesn't. I found on [
conky.sourceforge.net]
That you should extract in /usr/share/doc/conky/examples
gunzip conkyrc.sample.gz" to get conkyrc.sample
And then copy it to $HOME/.conkyrc and then start modifying it.
Maybe that helps.