Conky + Cinnamon - Bad Placement After Turning Main Monitor Off/On

[Gilbert]

Hi
I am testing Linux Mint Cinnamon 19.3, love-it.

My only problem is, when I turn Off then On my main monitor (DP-0 - right hand side) Conky is referencing the left monitor (HDMI-0 - left hand side).
Don't have that problem in Mint Mate 19.3

Everything stay ok if I turn Off then On the left monitor.

My only solution for now is to run a small script (ConkyFix) every time I turn my monitor back on, that kill conky and restart it.

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#!/bin/bash
sudo killall conky
conky &
exit 0

Normal placement. (On system start or after running ConkyFix)

After I turn monitor Off then On.

My conky.config -- header only.

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conky.config = {
    own_window = true,
    own_window_class = 'Conky',
    own_window_title = 'Conky',
    own_window_type = 'panel',
    own_window_transparent = false,
    own_window_argb_visual = true,
    own_window_argb_value = 100,
    own_window_hints = 'undecorated,below,skip_taskbar,skip_pager',
    background = true,
    double_buffer = true,
    xinerama_head = 2,
    alignment = none,
    gap_x = 4165,
    gap_y = -70,
    use_xft = true,
    xftalpha = 1,
    override_utf8_locale = true,
    draw_outline = true,
    draw_borders = false,
    draw_shades = true,
    default_outline_color = 'black',
    default_color = 'ECEAE4',
    color1 = 'FFFF00',
    stippled_borders = 0,
    border_inner_margin = 5,
    border_outer_margin = 5,
    border_width = 1,
    uppercase = false,
    no_buffers = true,
    temperature_unit = 'celsius',
    pad_percents = 0,
    minimum_width = 310,
    maximum_width = 310,
    update_interval = 1,
    short_units = false,
    font = 'Ubuntu:bold:size=11'       --important for shades to work
}

Is this a Conky or system setup ?
If anybody can help to fix this, tell me the info you need and I'll provide it.

Thank a lot.

[smurphos]

Take a look here - https://github.com/brndnmtthws/conky/issues/249

[Gilbert]

Hi

Thanks for the hint.

Still not working.

I found this:

1. When I turn off my main monitor (DP-0) nothing change on the second monitor (HDMI-0).
I did put a

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touch a file command

in one of the script called by conky every second, the file timestamp are getting updated when the main monitor is off.
So conky is still running and at the correct position, since it did not yet appear on the second monitor.

2. When I turn the main monitor back on. The NVIDIA 1050T1 card reset, both screen go black.
Then, when the screen return, conky is missplaced and any windows that was open on the main monitor are now displayed on the second monitor.

Is that could be a X server problem, getting reset then losing the correct real estate information and
changing all open windows (including conky) positionning reference ?

or the Display Manager (LightDM) ?

Thanks.

[Koentje]

Have you tried this?

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own_window_type = 'dock'

[cpedretti]

Have you tried this?

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own_window_type = 'dock'

Thank you very much for this detail, it works perfectly under LMDE5

[Koentje]

Glad it worked for you!