The conky window size is not calculated correctly in either of these two cases:
Case 1: The window height cuts off text
use_xft yes
xftfont verdana:size=8
alignment bottom_left
gap_x 10
gap_y 10
minimum_size 260 0
xftalpha 0.8
own_window yes
own_window_class monitoring
own_window_type normal
own_window_transparent no
own_window_hints undecorated,below,sticky,skip_taskbar,skip_pager
double_buffer yes
draw_shades no
draw_outline no
draw_borders no
stippled_borders 10
border_margin 4
border_width 0
default_shade_color grey
default_outline_color black
default_color BADCDD
background 000000
use_spacer none
no_buffers yes
uppercase no
text_buffer_size 2048
TEXT
${voffset 5}${goto 10}test
${voffset 5}${goto 10}test
${voffset 5}${goto 10}test
${voffset 5}${goto 10}test
${voffset -50}${goto 100}${font Bitstream Vera Sans Mono:style=Bold:size=14}test${font}
Case 2: The window height is too large
use_xft yes
xftfont verdana:size=8
alignment bottom_left
gap_x 10
gap_y 10
minimum_size 260 0
xftalpha 0.8
own_window yes
own_window_class monitoring
own_window_type normal
own_window_transparent no
own_window_hints undecorated,below,sticky,skip_taskbar,skip_pager
double_buffer yes
draw_shades no
draw_outline no
draw_borders no
stippled_borders 10
border_margin 4
border_width 0
default_shade_color grey
default_outline_color black
default_color BADCDD
background 000000
use_spacer none
no_buffers yes
uppercase no
text_buffer_size 2048
TEXT
${voffset 5}${goto 10}test
${voffset 5}${goto 10}test
${voffset 5}${goto 10}test
${voffset 5}${goto 10}test
${voffset -50}${goto 100}test
My conky details are as follows:
Conky 1.6.1 compiled Mon Feb 16 13:23:18 UTC 2009 for Linux 2.6.24-19-server (i686)
Compiled in features:
System config file: /etc/conky/conky.conf
X11:
* Xdamage extension
* Xdbe extension (double buffer)
* xft
Music detection:
* mpd
General features:
* math
* hddtemp
* portmon
* rss
* wireless