pad_percents issues...again

[ajgringo619]

Issue

For the life of me, I cannot get pad_percents to make any difference on whatever percentage call I'm making.

Information

Here's my conky.conf:

conky.config = {
    -- Window settings --
    gap_x = 5,
    gap_y = 1,
    minimum_height = 200,
    minimum_width = 1910,
    own_window = true,
    own_window_argb_visual = true,
    own_window_argb_value = 0,
    own_window_class = 'Conky2',
    own_window_colour ='020202',
    own_window_hints = 'skip_taskbar,undecorated',
    own_window_title = 'testing',
    own_window_type = 'normal',
    xinerama_head = 1,

    -- Color, fonts --
    color1 = 'cyan',
    color2 = 'yellow',
    color3 = 'green',
    default_color = 'white',
    font = 'Ubuntu Mono:size=12',
    use_xft = true,

    -- Formatting --
    alignment = 'tl',
    background = false,
    border_width = 1,
    draw_borders = false,
    draw_graph_borders = false,
    draw_outline = false,
    draw_shades = false,
    extra_newline = false,
    format_human_readable = yes,
    pad_percents = 2,
    use_spacer = 'none',

    -- Other settings --
    cpu_avg_samples = 2,
    double_buffer = true,
    net_avg_samples = 2,
    no_buffers = true,
    out_to_console = false,
    out_to_stderr = false,
    short_units = true,
    update_interval = 2.0,
    uppercase = false,

    -- Templates --
    -- Top processes --
    template0 = [[${top pid \1}${goto 75}${top name \1}${goto 225}${pid_exe ${top pid \1}}${goto 550}${top user \1}${goto 650}${top cpu \1}${goto 725}${top mem \1}]]
};

conky.text = [[
${font Ubuntu Mono:bold:size=12}${color1}  PID${goto 75}Name${goto 225}Program Path${goto 550}User${goto 650}  CPU%${goto 725}  MEM%${font}${color}
${template0 1}
${template0 2}
${template0 3}
${template0 4}
${template0 5}
${template0 6}
${template0 7}
${template0 8}
${template0 9}
${template0 10}
${goto 650}${cpu cpu0}%${goto 725}${memperc}%
]]

The ${top cpu} and ${top mem} are showing 2 decimal places, but that doesn't change regardless of the pad_percents setting. Also, ${cpu cpu0} and ${memperc} always show no decimal places. I know this used to work, but I haven't tried Conky in a few years.

This can't be this difficult...can it?

[kistlin]

You have use_spacer set to 'none'. I think this doesn't add padding. Try 'left' or 'right' for use_spacer.

I was debugging a similar issue, but my mistake was not putting a quote ' or " around the value of use_spacer and therefore got no padding.

Example

use_spacer = left,

leads to the same as

use_spacer = 'none',

which does not add padding, correct would be

use_spacer = 'left',

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