I like the merging of pypanel and conky. Works out surprisingly elegantly. I'd be curious to see the conky config.

thank you.
here's my conkyrc:



#avoid flicker
double_buffer yes

#own window to run simultanious 2 or more conkys
own_window yes
own_window_transparent yes
own_window_type override
own_window_hints undecorate,sticky,skip_taskbar,skip_pager,bottom

#borders
draw_borders none
border_margin 1

#shades
draw_shades no

#position
gap_x 0
gap_y 0
alignment top_right

#behaviour
update_interval 1

#colour
default_color white
#default_shade_color 000000
own_window_colour 262626

#font
use_xft yes
xftfont bauhaus:pixelsize=8

#to prevent window from moving
use_spacer no
minimum_size 546 0

#mpd
mpd_host localhost
mpd_port 6600

#custom colors
color0 dark grey
color1 0099cc
color2 grey
color8 black


TEXT
${color1}System - ${color0}Cpu: ${color}${cpu}% ${color0}${goto 85}Mem: $color${memperc}% $color0 Up: $color${uptime}${goto 205}${color1}${wireless_essid wlan0} (${wireless_link_qual wlan0}%) - ${color0}Down: ${color}${downspeed wlan0} Kb/s ${totaldown wlan0} ${color0}Up: ${color}${upspeed wlan0} Kb/s ${totalup wlan0} ${goto 470}
${font}${color0}/: ${color}${fs_free /} (${fs_free_perc /}%) ${color0}/home: ${color}${fs_free /home} (${fs_free_perc /home}%) ${goto 205}${color1}MPD - ${color}$mpd_smart ${goto 470}${voffset -12}${font bauhaus:pixelsize=18}${time %H:%M:%S}