alignment top_right and middle_right and own_window_type=panel

[adam-kulagowski]

Hi,

I've encountered strange behavior of conky window properties when using own_window_type= 'panel' . My aim is to make conky act as a panel type of window so that space will be reserved when maximizing other windows. When I set the the variable: alignment to middle_right and position (using gap_x and gap_y) conky window in top_right corner, then everything works fine and as expected. However when I set the aligment to top_right and set the gap_y to position the window in the same spot, the XFCE window manager ignores conky and maximized other windows below.

From quick look I suspect that there might something wrong with _NET_WM_STRUT_PARTIAL property but I'm no expert here :)

I'm attaching:

• working conky config (middle_right-conf.txt)
• broken config (top_right-conf.txt)
• output of xprop of both windows (the only difference is below)

  diff /tmp/top_right.txt /tmp/middle_right.txt 
  1,2c1,2
  < _NET_WM_STRUT_PARTIAL(CARDINAL) = 0, 0, 615, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 5121, 5208, 0, 0
  < _NET_WM_STRUT(CARDINAL) = 0, 0, 615, 0
  ---
  > _NET_WM_STRUT_PARTIAL(CARDINAL) = 0, 87, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 615, 0, 0, 0, 0
  > _NET_WM_STRUT(CARDINAL) = 0, 87, 0, 0

This bug occurs on xubuntu 18.10 (with single and multiple monitors and with and without xinerama_head option). I'm using latest github version.

middle_right-conf.txt top_right-conf.txt middle_right.txt top_right.txt

[lasers]

Can you try this on other WM/DE too to rule out XFCE? I know we have some XFCE-related issues.

[adam-kulagowski]

Yep, You are right (unfortunately):

• Marco, OpenBox, metacity - they don't have that issue

Right now I'm using two conky instances at the same time. The second is a dummy one: fully transparent and 1px height (and middle_right aligment) and w/ the same width as the original one.

Ugly but gets the job done.

[ThaChillera]

I'm experiencing the same issue I think:

When running XFCE & conky in panel mode, conky doesn't ever reserve space. Except when on my left-most monitor - aligned bottom-right, then it reserves space along the bottom of my centre monitor (?!).

Other than that, it never reserves space.

I have tested the exact same config with cinnamon DE, and it works perfectly.

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