LinuxQuestions.org - [SOLVED] Conky offsets shades with different sized fonts

Hi everybody, Conky changes the shades if a different sized font is added. I'm using Conky 1.8 on Debian Squeeze. This is what the shades normally look like (and I prefer):
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And this happens when I use a text with a larger font.
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I have now also tried it with a simple plain text, and the problem persists. This is the conkyrc file I use. To be sure, I had removed all redundant formatting. The last couple of lines make the difference.

Code:

alignment top_right

background yes

border_width 1

cpu_avg_samples 3

default_color green

default_outline_color white

default_shade_color black

draw_borders no

draw_graph_borders yes

draw_outline no

draw_shades yes

use_xft yes

xftfont DejaVu Sans Mono:size=8

# X font when Xft is disabled, you can pick one with program xfontsel



# Gap between borders of screen and text

# same thing as passing -x at command line

gap_x 15

gap_y 15

minimum_size 220 5

net_avg_samples 2



# Subtract file system buffers from used memory?

no_buffers no



out_to_console no

out_to_stderr no

#?

extra_newline no



own_window yes

#X window class. Sort of a title.

own_window_class Conky

own_window_type desktop

own_window_transparent yes

# If own_window is yes, these window manager hints may be used

own_window_hints undecorated,below,sticky,skip_taskbar,skip_pager



# Use double buffering (reduces flicker, may not work for everyone)

double_buffer yes



stippled_borders 0

update_interval 5.0

uppercase no

use_spacer none

show_graph_scale no

show_graph_range yes



TEXT

${font}${color goldenrod}Hostname: $nodename

${color goldenrod}Linux Kernel: $kernel

${color goldenrod}CPU Details:  $machine, $freq(MHz)

${color}CPU History:  ${color darkgreen}${cpugraph 30,0 404040 5577ff}

${color}CPU Usage:${color magenta2} $cpu% ${cpubar 11,0}

RAM Usage: $mem ($memperc%) ${membar 11,0}

Available RAM: $memmax

$stippled_hr

$alignc Processes:$color $processes  ${color grey}Running:$color $running_processes

$alignc${color}(top 5 sorted by CPU usage)

${color goldenrod} NAME              PID    CPU%  MEM%

${top name 1} ${top pid 1} ${top cpu 1} ${top mem 1}

${top name 2} ${top pid 2} ${top cpu 2} ${top mem 2}

${top name 3} ${top pid 3} ${top cpu 3} ${top mem 3}

${top name 4} ${top pid 4} ${top cpu 4} ${top mem 4}

${top name 5} ${top pid 5} ${top cpu 5} ${top mem 5}



$alignc(top 5 sorted by MEM usage)

${color goldenrod} NAME              PID    CPU%  MEM%

${color} ${top_mem name 1} ${top_mem pid 1} ${top_mem cpu 1} ${top_mem mem 1}

${top_mem name 2} ${top_mem pid 2} ${top_mem cpu 2} ${top_mem mem 2}

${top_mem name 3} ${top_mem pid 3} ${top_mem cpu 3} ${top_mem mem 3}

${top_mem name 4} ${top_mem pid 4} ${top_mem cpu 4} ${top_mem mem 4}

${top_mem name 5} ${top_mem pid 5} ${top_mem cpu 5} ${top_mem mem 5}

$stippled_hr

$aligncSystem Uptime:${color DarkOrange1} $uptime

# http://sethjust.com/2009/08/03/a-useful-calendar-in-conky/

${hr 2}

${font DejaVu Sans Mono : size=16}${color white}${execpi 7200 DJS=`date +%_d`; cal | sed s/"\(^\|[^0-9]\)$DJS"'\b'/'\1${color orange}'"$DJS"'${color white}$alignc'/}

I have tried using offset and voffset, but the shades move along with the output. Is this shade offset a bug or a feature? Can I revert to the normal (1 or 2 pixels wide) offset of the shades? Any advice welcome. I have searched the net, but if you know a good resource for Conky info, that's welcome too. Thanks for reading.