The desktop showed conky in your white design, due to now having /root/.conkyrc instead of /etc/conky/conky.conf.
And since I read this honorable mention, sc0ttman....
I took my conky config file and renamed it to .conkyrc. You can download the attachment and just replace the original .conkyrc with my version, if so desired....wuweis conkyrc...
Two things to watch out for:
Akita seems to support only one CPU. Therefore, I have commented out the second CPU, because Conky wouldn't start with that line active.
Second, anybody using my .conkyrc must change the partition lines to fit his disk geometry.
All else: Akita is getting to be a real gem!