[Bug]: Conky window does not appear on second monitor

[tecnosegugio]

What happened?

Conky 1.17.0 does not place the conky window on the correct monitor.

I have two monitor, the second one is placed above the main monitor and I have
configured GNOME to extend screen on two monitors.
I'm used to place conky window on the second monitor, the one above the main
monitor, on the top right corner.

Using conky 1.12.2 the conky window is placed in the top right corner on the second monitor, using:
gap_x = 6,
gap_y = 0,

Using v 1.17.0, with the same settigns, the conky window appear on the first monitor on its top right corner.

Tried to edit xinerama_head value in .conkyrc file but nothing works.

Tried to edit the alignment_* values but every changes seems related to the
main monitor and not on the whole logical screen.

As a workaround I've changed:
gap_x = -780,
gap_y = -1440,

to place the conky window on the second monitor.

Version

1.17.0

Which OS/distro are you seeing the problem on?

Debian

Conky config

-- versione per doppio monitor conky 1.17.0
conky.config = {
-- Use Xft?
	use_xft = true,
    font = 'DejaVu Sans Mono:size=14', 
-- font = 'VL PGothic:size=10',
-- font = 'Liberation Mono:size=10',
-- font = 'Bitstream Vera San Monos:size=10',
-- font = 'Noto Mono Regular:size=10',
-- xftfont = 'Cantarell:size=10',

	xftalpha = 1,
	text_buffer_size = 4092,

-- Update interval in seconds
	update_interval = 1,
	update_interval_on_battery = 10,

-- This is the number of times Conky will update before quitting.
-- Set to zero to run forever.
	total_run_times = 0,

-- Create own window instead of using desktop (required in nautilus)
	own_window = true,
	own_window_class = 'Conky',
	own_window_transparent = false,
	own_window_type = 'desktop',
	own_window_hints = 'undecorated,below,sticky,skip_taskbar,skip_pager',
	own_window_colour = '000000',
	own_window_argb_visual = true,
	own_window_argb_value = 200,

-- Use double buffering (reduces flicker, may not work for everyone)
	double_buffer = true,

-- Minimum size of text area
	minimum_width = 300,
	maximum_width = 300,
    minimum_height = 1440,

-- Draw shades?
	draw_shades = false,

-- Draw outlines?
	draw_outline = false,

-- Draw borders around text
	draw_borders = false,

-- Stippled borders?
	stippled_borders = 0,

-- border margins
	border_outer_margin = 2,

-- border width
	border_width = 1,

-- Default colors and also border colors
	default_color = 'grey',
-- default_shade_color = 'black',
-- default_outline_color white

-- bar size
	default_bar_width = 260, default_bar_height = 20,

-- colori 
	color0 = 'grey',
-- bar color
	color1 = '#2222AA',
-- data color
	color2 = 'green',
-- alternative data color
	color3 = 'red',

-- Text alignment, other possible values are commented
-- alignment = 'top_left',
   alignment = 'top_right',
-- alignment = 'bottom_left',
-- alignment = 'bottom_right',

-- Gap between borders of screen and text
-- same thing as passing -x at command line
   gap_x = 6,
-- Xorg
   gap_y = 0,    
-- Wayland
-- gap_y = 1108,

-- define xinerama display
   xinerama_head = 2,

-- Subtract file system buffers from used memory?
	no_buffers = false,

-- set to yes if you want all text to be in uppercase
	uppercase = false,

-- number of cpu samples to average
-- set to 1 to disable averaging
	cpu_avg_samples = 1,

-- number of net samples to average
-- set to 1 to disable averaging
	net_avg_samples = 1,

-- Force UTF8? note that UTF8 support required XFT
	override_utf8_locale = true,

-- Add spaces to keep things from moving about?  This only affects certain objects.
	use_spacer = 'none',

-- load lua scripts
	lua_load = '~/.conky/scripts/cpufreq.lua',

-- image cache
	imlib_cache_size = 0,
    -- imlib_cache_flush_interval = 300,

-- width for top name
    top_name_width = 10,

};

conky.text = [[
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${image ~/.conky/img/current_cover.jpg -n -p 0,556 -s 150x150 -f 10}
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${voffset 90}
${execpi 10 ~/.conky/scripts/song-info.sh }${color0}
${font DejaVu Sans:style=Bold:size=14}Stock Quotes ${hr 2}${font}
${scroll 28 4 ${execpi 600 cat ~/.conky/tmp/ticker.txt }}${color0}
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]];

Stack trace

No response

Relevant log output

No response

[belrus65]

Conky-Debug.txt
Having the same problem on debian testing. Cnky not detecting the xinerama area correctly. Here's the debug info:

DEBUG(0) [./src/conky.cc:1953]: reading contents from config file '/home/russell.belair/.config/conky/dreamlan/cyan/panels/center/middle/panel-1'
DEBUG(0) [./src/x11.cc:230]: enter init_x11()
DEBUG(0) [./src/x11.cc:319]: Fixed xinerama area to: 1680 0 3600 1080
DEBUG(0) [./src/x11.cc:268]: leave init_x11()
DEBUG(0) [./src/x11.cc:482]: enter x11_init_window()
DEBUG(0) [./src/x11.cc:319]: Fixed xinerama area to: 1680 0 3600 1080
conky: desktop window (6bd) is root window
DEBUG(0) [./src/x11.cc:459]: Found ARGB Visual
conky: window type - desktop
conky: drawing to created window (0x1400002)
DEBUG(0) [./src/x11.cc:848]: leave x11_init_window()
conky: drawing to double buffer
DEBUG(1) [./src/core.cc:2106]: no templates to replace
conky: forked to background, pid is 4414
conky: desktop window (6bd) is root window
conky: desktop window (6bd) is root window
conky: window type - desktop
conky: window type - desktop
conky: drawing to created window (0x1800002)
conky: drawing to created window (0x1c00002)
conky: drawing to double buffer
conky: forked to background, pid is 4415

DEBUG(1) [./src/display-output.cc:128]: Testing display output 'wayland'...
DEBUG(1) [./src/display-output.cc:128]: Testing display output 'x11'...
DEBUG(1) [./src/display-x11.cc:212]: Display output 'x11' enabled in config.
DEBUG(1) [./src/display-output.cc:130]: Detected display output 'x11'...

It only seems to be able to detect my first monitor, but the other 2 are not!

Here's is my xrandr setup:

Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 5280 x 1080, maximum 16384 x 16384
DisplayPort-0 connected primary 1920x1080+1680+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 597mm x 336mm
1920x1080 60.00*+
1600x1200 60.00
1680x1050 59.88
1400x1050 59.95
1280x1024 75.02 60.02
1440x900 59.90
1280x960 60.00
1280x800 60.00
1152x864 75.00
1280x720 60.00
1024x768 75.03 70.07 60.00
832x624 74.55
800x600 72.19 75.00 60.32 56.25
640x480 75.00 72.81 66.67 59.94
720x400 70.08
DisplayPort-1 connected 1680x1050+3600+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 474mm x 296mm
1680x1050 59.97*+
1280x1024 75.02 60.02
1440x900 59.90
1280x960 60.00
1280x800 59.91
1152x864 75.00
1280x720 60.00
1024x768 75.03 70.07 60.00
832x624 74.55
800x600 72.19 75.00 60.32 56.25
640x480 75.00 72.81 66.67 59.94
720x400 70.08
DisplayPort-2 connected 1680x1050+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 474mm x 296mm
1680x1050 59.97*+
1280x1024 75.02 60.02
1440x900 59.90
1280x960 60.00
1280x800 59.91
1152x864 75.00
1280x720 60.00
1024x768 75.03 70.07 60.00
832x624 74.55
800x600 72.19 75.00 60.32 56.25
640x480 75.00 72.81 66.67 59.94
720x400 70.08
DisplayPort-3 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)

[dbenedb]

I found the same problem in Debian unstable with XFCE 4.18.
Linux 6.1.0-1-amd64 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Debian 6.1.4-1 (2023-01-07) x86_64 GNU/Linux
conky version: 1.17.0

I have two monitors: 2560x1440 (primary) and 1280x1024 (secondary). Conky should be displayed on the secondary one, but right now its not.

relevant part of conky.conf:

conky.config = {
alignment = 'top_left',
border_width = 0,
cpu_avg_samples = 2,
double_buffer = true;
draw_borders = false,
draw_graph_borders = true,
draw_outline = false,
draw_shades = false,
use_xft = true,
xftalpha = 1,
font = 'DejaVu Sans Mono:size=9',
gap_x = 0,
gap_y = 0,
minimum_height = 1024,
minimum_width = 1280,
maximum_height = 1024,
maximum_width = 1280,
max_port_monitor_connections = 64,
net_avg_samples = 2,
no_buffers = true,
out_to_console = false,
out_to_stderr = false,
extra_newline = false,
own_window = true,
own_window_type = 'desktop',
own_window_hints = 'below',
own_window_argb_visual = true,
own_window_argb_value = 0,
own_window_transparent = false,
stippled_borders = 0,
update_interval = 0.5,
uppercase = false,
use_spacer = 'none',
show_graph_scale = false,
show_graph_range = false,
xinerama_head = 1
}

debug info: conky -DD

DEBUG(0) [./src/conky.cc:1953]: reading contents from config file '/home/me/.config/conky/conky.conf'
DEBUG(0) [./src/x11.cc:230]: enter init_x11()
DEBUG(0) [./src/x11.cc:319]: Fixed xinerama area to: 1280 0 3840 1440
DEBUG(0) [./src/x11.cc:268]: leave init_x11()
DEBUG(0) [./src/x11.cc:482]: enter x11_init_window()
DEBUG(0) [./src/x11.cc:319]: Fixed xinerama area to: 1280 0 3840 1440
conky: desktop window (160000d) is subwindow of root window (6f4)
DEBUG(0) [./src/x11.cc:459]: Found ARGB Visual
conky: window type - desktop
conky: drawing to created window (0x2800002)
DEBUG(0) [./src/x11.cc:848]: leave x11_init_window()
conky: drawing to double buffer
conky: Unknown setting 'maximum_height'
DEBUG(1) [./src/core.cc:2103]: replaced all templates in text: input is

xrandr:

Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 3840 x 1440, maximum 16384 x 16384
DisplayPort-0 connected primary 2560x1440+1280+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 597mm x 336mm
2560x1440 59.95*+
1920x1200 59.95
1920x1080 60.00 60.00 50.00 59.94
1600x1200 59.95
1280x1440 59.91
1680x1050 59.95
1400x1050 59.98
1280x1024 75.02 60.02
1440x900 59.89
1280x960 60.00
1280x800 59.81
1152x864 75.00
1280x720 60.00 50.00 59.94
1024x768 75.03 70.07 60.00
832x624 74.55
800x600 72.19 75.00 60.32 56.25
720x576 50.00
720x480 60.00 59.94
640x480 75.00 72.81 66.67 60.00 59.94
720x400 70.08
DisplayPort-1 connected 1280x1024+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 375mm x 300mm
1280x1024 60.02*+ 75.02
1280x960 60.00
1280x800 60.02
1152x864 75.00
1280x720 60.00 50.00
1024x768 75.03 70.07 60.00
832x624 74.55
800x600 72.19 75.00 60.32 56.25
720x576 50.00
720x480 59.94
640x480 75.00 72.81 66.67 60.00 59.94
720x400 70.08
DisplayPort-2 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
HDMI-A-0 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)

[LucasSymons]

Weirdly having the same issue but on an earlier version from OP
I am on 1.16.1

The only extra info I have to add is I get this output if I try to update the xinerama_head setting in my config file while conky is running.

conky: '/home/user/.conky/conky-grapes/conky_gen.conkyrc' modified, reloading...
DEBUG(0) [/usr/src/debug/conky-lua-nv/conky-1.16.1/src/x11.cc:272]: deinit_x11()
Segmentation fault (core dumped)

I did a test and can confirm I don't have this issue using 1.12.2
Sorry that was the only other version I could quickly find in the AUR

[eh]

Same issue on Arch + Cinnamon. I have fallen back to 1.15.0.

1.16.0 was giving me some sort of table error and 1.16.1 behaves the same as 1.17.0.

[b1337xyz]

1.17.0 ignoring xinerama_head = 1 on Arch (i3wm), downgrading to 1.50.0 solved too

[skunktrading]

1.17.0 ignoring xinerama_head = 1 on Arch (xfce), downgrading to 1.15.0 solved too

[kewlfft]

Same issue on a 2 monitors setup, I am using gap_x = -1908 to circumvent the problem

[derbetakevin]

Same issue on Arch GNOME on Wayland and xorg.

[ipaqmaster]

Did my Arch updates this morning with a reboot and 1.17.0 is behaving correctly now, starting on the correct monitor.

(This was transient, apologies for the misleading comment!)

[karabaja4]

Same issue on Arch and conky 1.17.0, downgrading to 1.15.0 fixes it.

[lantorax]

another work around: You can change the monitor that is primary and load conky. It'll appear on that monitor, then you can switch the primary back to your normal primary.

[Tomasu]

I have the same issue, and think I figured out the problem. The settings appear to be order dependent, and the xinerama_head config setting wasn't listed in the order dependent config setting list. So when the own_window config was "set" (which is where the x11 window appears to be created), the xinerama_head config item hadn't been loaded/processed yet so defaulted to 0.

The following appears to fix the problem.

index 24909c90..7b69683d 100644
--- a/src/setting.cc
+++ b/src/setting.cc
@@ -98,6 +98,7 @@ const std::vector<std::string> settings_ordering{
     "border_outer_margin",
     "border_width",
     "alignment",
+    "xinerama_head",
     "own_window_transparent",
     "own_window_class",
     "own_window_title",

[ipaqmaster]

Thanks for digging into this.

I built from source and experienced the issue just as to check. Then built again with your change there and it launched on the correct monitor. Looks like the right fix