Conky dual screen positioning

I'm using Conky on Ubuntu 17.10 to display system informations on my desktop.

My computer has 2 monitors and I would like to move Conky to the 2nd one that is on the right, but I haven't found any informations on how I can perform that.

Here is a screen of my desktop:

Any help would be most welcome!

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3 Answers

use xinerama_head config as suggested in this issue discussion

xinerama_head = 2,

try with different number 1, 2

You might also want to use alignment so that conky widget appears not cropped by screen border

alignment = {top|middle|bottom}_right

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I finally managed to move the Conky widget to the second monitor using negative values for the horizontal gap (-1920) after choosing Bottom Right in Conky Manager. And now my desktop looks like this:

If anyone has a better solution I would consider choosing it as the accepted answer.

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You can completely disable conky's alignment by setting alignment = none and put absolute gap_x and gap_y values. This will allow widget positioning at any place without weird negative shifting.

As an example: to put a 200px wide widget in the right top corner of the right monitor, calculation will be simple:

gap_x = <left_monitor_width> + <right_monitor_width> - <widget_width>

In my case:

gap_x = 1680 + 1680 - 200 = 3160

and the config will look next:

conky.config = { ... alignment = none, gap_x = 3160, gap_y = 0, ...
}

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