conky display moves

[jagdpanther]

Since upgrading (via emerge) to conky-1.10.4, the conky display which I have configured to appear in the upper right hand corner of my display, slows moves down the screen when I am moving any window. (Ex an xterm window.) Eventually it will pop back up to the proper place, but again starts creeping down when windows are moved. Any ideas?

According to
https://github.com/brndnmtthws/conky/wiki/Configuration-Settings
the conky configuration syntax changed starting with conky-1.10. I used the included convert.lua script to change to the new configuration without error.

The only standard/error output that conky gives is:

[jagdpanther]

I just tried emerging the "unstable" version: conky-1.10.6 ... same issue.

[figueroa]

Upgrading to 1.10.4 resulted in a scrambled output. I could get it to unscramble if I killed it and started manually, but not worth the chase. I downgraded to 1.9.0-r3.
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[jagdpanther]

figueroa: I still have the conky creep-down the screen issue when I move or resize other windows. (Within 2 seconds the conky display always pops back to where it should be). So far I am living with it, I may downgrade to 1.9.x.

[renzhi]

I have the exact same problem, it's really annoying. I'm running openbox, conky 1.10.6 on debian testing (had the problem with debian jessie as well). I tried to compile conky from source, but 1.10.0 also has the problem.

We can't be the only persons to run into this issue, can we?

[soundrolf]

Syntax of .conkyrc changed

Here is my .conkyrc, have a look to xinerama_head = 2;

conky.config = {
alignment = 'top_right',
background = false,
double_buffer = true,
border_width = 0,
cpu_avg_samples = 2,
default_color = 'white',
draw_borders = false,
draw_graph_borders = false,
draw_outline = false,
draw_shades = false,
use_xft = true,
font = 'DejaVu Sans Mono:size=12',
gap_x = 5,
gap_y = 5,
net_avg_samples = 2,
no_buffers = true,
text_buffer_size = 512,
out_to_console = false,
out_to_stderr = false,
extra_newline = false,
own_window = true,
own_window_class = 'Conky',
own_window_type = 'desktop',
own_window_transparent = true,
own_window_argb_visual = true,
own_window_hints = 'undecorated,below,sticky,skip_taskbar,skip_pager';
stippled_borders = 0,
update_interval = 1.0,
uppercase = false,
use_spacer = 'none',
show_graph_scale = false,
show_graph_range = false,
minimum_width = 160,
minimum_height = 1024,
maximum_width = 180,
-------------------------- Attention, below setting is for second monitor right of primary. If screen resolution is 1280x1024
-- -- you can to set it to xinerama_head = 1280 , conky display at right side of right monitor
-- -- set it to xinerama_head = 0 then conky display at right side of primary (left) monitor
-- -- if there is only one monitor set it to xinerama_head = 0 then conky display of right side
-- -- in my case xinerama_head = 2 do the job to display conky at right side of right monitor
xinerama_head = 2;
--------------------------

--Lua scripts
lua_load = '~/.lua/basic/basic.lua',
lua_draw_hook_pre = 'main'
}

conky.text = [[

]]

Hope that helps

[bunder]

I would try this against a fresh config since they changed the format a few versions back. If you run

[renzhi]

I think I know what the problem is.

It used to be that if you wanted to use the desktop to display (without conky's own window), you set the parameter

own_window = false

And this caused the problem described above. For those who migrated from the old version, you probably wouldn't suspect it.

Now you have to do:

own_window = true,
own_window_class = 'Conky',
own_window_type = 'desktop',

And this stops the problem.