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I would like to run an instance of conky on top, that is, to always be visible.

I tried to use 

own_window yes
own_window_type normal
own_window_class conky
own_window_transparent no
own_window_hints undecorate,above,sticky,skip_taskbar,skip_pager

I don't know what all these commands means but it works (partially).

The problem is that it is not visible if I am using a pdf in full screen mode, like slides during a presentation.

How can I do this?

ps: I'm trying to run it to show a small clock to have time control during the presentation.

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The conky documentation is very good: see own_window_type panel – jasonwryan Feb 27 at 2:25
I tried this but no success. – Sigur Feb 27 at 2:26
The PDF viewer may also be telling your window manager that it wants to be in the foreground. Good window manager let you fine-tune these things, bad ones don't. What window manager are you using? – Gilles Feb 27 at 22:30
I use Lubuntu so I believe that I use Openbox. Is it a windows manager? – Sigur Feb 27 at 22:36

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