conky DPI issues

Hi! I have a question: Conky's priority of getting DPI setting seems to be this: fontconfig, xrdb, randr. Was it based on something? How was it chosen?

And also a request: Please give conky the ability to apply new DPI, either automatically when it changes (if possible) or on receiving SIGUSR1/SIGHUP. It isn't very handy to kill and restart conky every time a display with different dimensions is connected.

Jul 25 '17 23:07 Vladimir-csp

Dunst is going to get this ability in next release, it changes DPI on the fly.

Mar 23 '19 19:03 Vladimir-csp

Hello. Where are we with this, please? Here is why I ask.

I run Conky on a Linux Mint Cinnamon system that uses Hi-DPI. All was working. Then I created a new user, logged into the new user (graphically), and ran Conky but using my old Conky config. And now everything in Conky is much too large. The only way that I have found to get my Conky back to how it should look is by using a Cinnamon GUI to turn off the hi-DPI scaling. In all this, the Conky version that I am using is 1.12.2_pre.

May 15 '22 22:05 LinuxOnTheDesktop

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Oct 30 '23 01:10 github-actions[bot]

Dunst is going to get this ability in next release, it changes DPI on the fly.

Ah. Does Conky use Dunst?

Oct 30 '23 12:10 LinuxOnTheDesktop