On startup, conky keeps printing over itself and turns into a blob of unreadable text.

[txtsd]

But if I pkill conky and restart it, then it works fine.

Here is my .conkyrc

conky.config = {
    alignment="top_right";
    background=true;
    border_inner_margin=50;
    default_bar_height=4;
    default_bar_width=0;
    default_color="FFFFFF";
    default_graph_height=24;
    default_graph_width=0;
    double_buffer=true;
    draw_graph_borders=false;
    draw_shades=false;
    font="DejaVu Sans Mono:size=7:Book:antialias:true";
    gap_x=10;
    gap_y=0;
    minimum_height=0;
    minimum_width=0;
    own_window=true;
    own_window_argb_value=0;
    own_window_argb_visual=false;
    own_window_colour="000000";
    own_window_hints="undecorated,below,sticky,skip_taskbar,skip_pager";
    own_window_transparent=true;
    own_window_type="desktop";
    short_units=true;
    update_interval=0.5;
    uppercase=false;
    use_xft=true;
}

conky.text = [[

    ${color}
    ${alignc}${nodename} linux ${machine} ${kernel}
    ${alignc}${exec lscpu | grep -i "model name" | cut -c 24-}

    ${color 2E2EFE}core1 ${execi 5 sensors | grep 'Core 0' | awk '{print $3}'} degrees${alignr}core2 ${execi 5 sensors | grep 'Core 1' | awk '{print $3}'} degrees${color red}
    ${cpugraph cpu1 32, 130}${alignr}${cpugraph cpu2 32, 130}
    ${color 2E2EFE}${cpu cpu1}%${alignc}${color}freq:${color white} ${freq}Mhz ${color white}${alignr}${color 2E2EFE}${cpu cpu2}%

    ${color yellow}${top name 1}${alignr}${top cpu 1}%
    ${top name 2}${alignr}${top cpu 2}%
    ${top name 3}${alignr}${top cpu 3}%
    ${top name 4}${alignr}${top cpu 4}%
    ${top name 5}${alignr}${top cpu 5}%
    ${top name 6}${alignr}${top cpu 6}%
    ${color red}total${alignr} ${cpu}%

    ${color purple}${memgraph}
    ${membar}
    ${color purple}RAM usage${alignr} ${memperc}%
    ${swapbar}
    ${color purple}swap usage${alignr} ${swapperc}%${color yellow}
    ${top_mem name 1}${alignr}${top_mem pid 1}${alignc}${top_mem mem 1}%
    ${top_mem name 2}${alignr}${top_mem pid 2}${alignc}${top_mem mem 2}%
    ${top_mem name 3}${alignr}${top_mem pid 3}${alignc}${top_mem mem 3}%
    ${top_mem name 4}${alignr}${top_mem pid 4}${alignc}${top_mem mem 4}%
    ${top_mem name 5}${alignr}${top_mem pid 5}${alignc}${top_mem mem 5}%
    ${top_mem name 6}${alignr}${top_mem pid 6}${alignc}${top_mem mem 6}%
    ${color purple}total${alignr} ${mem}/${memmax}

    ${color 819FF7}sda6 ${hr 1}
    /${alignr}${fs_size /}
    ${fs_bar /}
    ${fs_used_perc /}%${alignr}${fs_used /}

    sda2 ${hr 1}
    /media/Win8${alignr}${fs_size /media/Win8}
    ${fs_bar /media/Win8}
    ${fs_used_perc /media/Win8}%${alignr}${fs_used /media/Win8}

    ${color yellow}disk read${alignr}disk write
    ${diskiograph_read 32, 130}${alignr}${diskiograph_write 32, 130}
    ${diskio_read}${alignr}${diskio_write}

    ${color green}LAN${hr 1}
    enp7s0${alignr} ${addr enp7s0}
    up ${upspeed enp7s0}${alignr}down ${downspeed enp7s0}
    ${upspeedgraph enp7s0 32, 130}${alignr}${downspeedgraph enp7s0 32, 130}
    total ${totalup enp7s0}${alignr}total ${totaldown enp7s0}

    ${color green}WLAN${hr 1}
    wlp8s0${alignr} ${addr wlp8s0}
    up ${upspeed wlp8s0}${alignr}down ${downspeed wlp8s0}
    ${upspeedgraph wlp8s0 32, 130}${alignr}${downspeedgraph wlp8s0 32, 130}
    total ${totalup wlp8s0}${alignr}total ${totaldown wlp8s0}

    ${color 00FF40}USB${hr 1}
    ${if_existing /dev/sdb1}${exec df -h | grep "sdb1" | cut -c -38} $else $endif
    ${if_existing /dev/sdc1}${exec df -h | grep "sdc1" | cut -c -38} $else $endif
    ${if_existing /dev/sdd1}${exec df -h | grep "sdd1" | cut -c -38} $else $endif
    ${if_existing /dev/sde1}${exec df -h | grep "sde1" | cut -c -38} $else $endif
]]

[aereaux]

Try setting own_window_argb_visual to true. That's what fixed it for me.

[txtsd]

@aereaux That fixes the problem BUT it makes conky use really ugly colors.

[txtsd]

┌[txtsd@dungeon-of-data]─[~] 
└─▶ conky -d
conky: Invalid value of type 'table' for setting 'background'. Expected value of type 'boolean'.
conky: desktop window (99) is root window
conky: window type - desktop
conky: drawing to created window (0x2200001)
conky: drawing to double buffer
^Cconky: received SIGINT or SIGTERM to terminate. bye!

┌[txtsd@dungeon-of-data]─[~] 
└─▶ conky   
conky: desktop window (99) is root window
conky: window type - desktop
conky: drawing to created window (0x2200001)
conky: drawing to double buffer
conky: forked to background, pid is 8593

For some reason, conky -d reads the background field incorrectly, but it runs fine without the daemonize flag.

[txtsd]

Not sure if anything changed, but I cannot reproduce this problem anymore.