[Bug]: 'panel' struts don't work with multi-monitor setup

[brrrrrrrt]

What happened?

i use two monitors.

conky window type is set to panel an positioned on the left side of the right monitor.

After Upgrading to 1.20 the window placement is "broken" when using the window type "panel".
once conky is started, all active windows move from the left to the right monitor and i am not able to move them all the way to the left on the left monitor, like some invisible barrier. the mouse can be moved freely on all monitors, but the windows cannot be moved all the way to the left.

downgrading to 1.19 solves the problem.

window type desktop works, this is how it should look like:

after setting window type to "panel" it looks like this:

windows cannot be moved all the way to the left, it stops at this position:

Version

1.20.2_pre

Which OS/distro are you seeing the problem on?

Arch Linux

Conky config

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    out_to_stderr = false,
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    own_window = true,
	own_window_transparent = true,
	own_window_argb_visual = true,
	own_window_type = 'panel',
	own_window_hints = 'below',
	short_units = true,
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    uppercase = false,
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[Caellian]

Hi, can you build fix/bad-struts branch and let me know whether it fixes this issue? I can't test locally because I don't have multiple monitors.

git clone -b fix/bad-struts https://github.com/brndnmtthws/conky.git
cd conky
cmake -S . -B build --fresh
cmake --build build
cmake --install build

The issue is caused by set_struts function in x11.cc and changes I did to it in last few commits:

• Initial change which should've behaved the same: set_struts improvements #1849
• Breaking change (I think): Update DPI when changed in resource manager #1878

[brrrrrrrt]

thx! :)

i tried the fix/bad-struts branch, "something changed on the issue", now the top panel looks fixed, but the dock on the left moved and the active window is "squeezed" to the bottom of the left monitor and if i want to move a window gnome tries to squeeze that window also to the bottom on the left monitor, see attached screenshot.

[DarNCelsius]

I had the same issue.
1.19.8 works as expected - 1.21.2 broke window positioning.
1.21.3 doesn't seem to reserve any space at all with 'panel' set.

[brrrrrrrt]

just tried 1.21.5 - it behaves exactly like window type desktop, no "panel-space" is reserved at all, maximized windows use the whole monitor

*edit - same with 1.21.6

[internauta2000]

Acabo de probar 1.21.5: se comporta exactamente como un escritorio tipo ventana, no se reserva ningún "espacio de panel", las ventanas maximizadas usan todo el monitor

*editar - lo mismo con 1.21.6

Please solve this bug..!

[Caellian]

Possibly related to #2046

[Caellian]

#2056 was merged thanks to heavyjoost, and it fixes how panel windows are created, I believe affected code could've been the cause of this regression. Can anyone confirm whether this bug has been resolved by that PR by testing with the latest commit on the main branch?

[brrrrrrrt]

#2056 was merged thanks to heavyjoost, and it fixes how panel windows are created, I believe affected code could've been the cause of this regression. Can anyone confirm whether this bug has been resolved by that PR by testing with the latest commit on the main branch?

sorry, i cannot test it, because since i upgraded to gnome 47, gnome crashes when starting conky with window type "panel". this is also the case with latest 1.21.8-pre-ebef8801 :(

[brrrrrrrt]

ok, i was able to test it without crashing gnome-shell, using a minimal configuration.

i cannot see any problems with window positioning, but the behavior of window type "panel" is now the same as "window" or "dock", which means, when a window is maximised, it covers conky.

just like reported in #2029, i am using Xorg, so looks like this is not limited to wayland.

[Caellian]

Eeehh... it's still broken.

Cause is related to #1961.