Comment 3 for bug 42467

Adding the 'Load "dbe"' line to /etc/X11/xorg.conf does not solve the problem for you? This is what I needed to do in order for conky (and X) to be able to use double buffering on my machine, and I never assumed that this process was a workaround to a bug in either conky or any other software. Conky does not have to be ran in double-buffering mode (in fact I think it defaults to a single buffer). Are you requesting that by running conky in double-buffer mode the application automatically adds the above line to the xorg.conf file and then asks you to restart X before working?

I may be mistaken about the "dbe" module, but I believe that it depends somewhat on the driver you are using as to whether this module even works. I know that I have had differing amounts of success with this option (and by extenstion the double-buffering in Conky) depending on what video driver I'm using.