@cantankrus Hi, ta, uh, ok. Sad but understandable... no, actually it's not really that understandable. I'm pretty surprised, given the popularity of Conky, that this was not solved/fixed years ago.
You know, later that same day/night that i did my post, i discovered how to achieve my goal outside of Conky, via a Plasma5 widget i put into the bottom panel [& it does use the right units]. If a Conky solution was available, i'd use that on my desktop too, but oh well, i can get by like this.
Thank you.
