how do I run Conky on primary AND 2nd monitors

[JHBlackstone]

how do I run two separate conky instances so it's on each monitor?

using own_window_type = 'normal' puts it on 2nd display (external monitor), and using own_window_type = 'desktop' puts it on my primary display (laptop monitor)

noticed that using 'desktop', and not 'normal', setting:
alignment = 'top_right',
gap_x = 0,
gap_y = 30,
actually works
on 'normal' they are all ignored...

here's my current .conkyrc file:

conky.config = {

out_to_wayland = true,
update_interval = 1,
cpu_avg_samples = 2,
net_avg_samples = 2,
out_to_console = false,
override_utf8_locale = true,
double_buffer = true,
no_buffers = true,
text_buffer_size = 32768,
imlib_cache_size = 0,
own_window = true,
own_window_type = 'desktop',
own_window_argb_visual = true,
own_window_argb_value = 50,
own_window_hints = 'undecorated,below,sticky,skip_taskbar,skip_pager',
border_inner_margin = 5,
border_outer_margin = 0,
out_to_wayland=true,
alignment = 'top_right',
gap_x = 7,
gap_y = 30,
draw_shades = false,
draw_outline = false,
draw_borders = false,
draw_graph_borders = false,
use_xft = true,
font = 'Ubuntu Mono:size=12',
xftalpha = 0.8,
uppercase = false,
default_color = 'white',
own_window_colour = '#000000',
minimum_width = 300, minimum_height = 0,
temperature_unit = 'fahrenheit',
};
conky.text = [[
${time %r}${alignr}${time %d-%m-%y}
${voffset -8}${font sans-serif:bold:size=16}${alignc}${time %I:%M %p}${font}
${voffset 4}${alignc}${time %A %B %d, %Y}
${font}${voffset -4}
${color red}${font Ubuntu:bold:size=20}${voffset -14}        *BLACKSTONE*
${color yellow}${font sans-serif:bold:size=10}${voffset -18}SYSTEM ${hr 2}
${font sans-serif:normal:size=8}${voffset -8}$sysname $kernel $alignr $machine
Host:$alignr$nodename
Uptime:$alignr$uptime
File System: $alignr${fs_type}
Processes: $alignr ${execi 1000 ps aux | wc -l}
${color green}${font sans-serif:bold:size=10}CPU ${hr 2}
${font sans-serif:normal:size=8}${voffset -8}${execi 1000 grep model /proc/cpuinfo | cut -d : -f2 | tail -1 | sed 's/\s//'}
${font sans-serif:normal:size=8}${voffset -8}${cpugraph cpu0}
CPU0: ${cpu cpu0}% ${cpubar cpu0}
${font sans-serif:normal:size=8}${voffset -8}${cpugraph cpu1}
CPU1: ${cpu cpu1}% ${cpubar cpu1}
${color lightblue}${font sans-serif:bold:size=10}MEMORY ${hr 2}
${font sans-serif:normal:size=8}RAM $alignc $mem / $memmax $alignr $memperc%
$membar
SWAP $alignc ${swap} / ${swapmax} $alignr ${swapperc}%
${swapbar}
${color lightgreen}${font sans-serif:bold:size=10}DISK USAGE ${hr 2}
${font sans-serif:normal:size=8} $alignc ${fs_used /} / ${fs_size /} $alignr ${fs_used_perc /}%
${fs_bar /}
${color lightmagenta}${font Ubuntu:bold:size=10}CPU temperature ${hr 2}
${hwmon 1 temp 1}°F
${color orange}${font Ubuntu:bold:size=10}NETWORK ${hr 2}
#${font sans-serif:normal:size=8}Local IPs:${alignr}External IP:
#${execi 1000 ip a | grep inet | grep -vw lo | grep -v inet6 | cut -d \/ -f1 | sed 's/[^0-9\.]*//g'}  	${alignr}${execi 1000  wget -q -O- http://ipecho.net/plain; echo}
${color light blue}${voffset -4}${font Ubuntu:bitalic:size=10}Local Area Network
${color lightgray}${font sans-serif:normal:size=8}${voffset -4}Down: ${downspeed enp0s25}  	${alignr}Up: ${upspeed enp0s25} 
${color green}${downspeedgraph enp0s25 20,150 } ${alignr}${voffset -4}${upspeedgraph enp0s25 20,150 }$color${voffset -4}
${color light blue}${font Ubuntu:bitalic:size=10}USB wifi     ${color orange}${wireless_bitrate wlxe8de27a17927}
${color lightgray}${voffset -4}${font sans-serif:normal:size=8}Down: ${downspeed wlxe8de27a17927}  ${alignr}Up: ${upspeed wlxe8de27a17927} 
${color green}${downspeedgraph wlxe8de27a17927 15,150 } ${voffset 4} 			${alignr}${upspeedgraph wlxe8de27a17927 15,150 }$color${voffset 4}
${color yellow}${wireless_essid wlxe8de27a17927} ${color red}${alignr}Signal: ${color orange}${wireless_link_qual_perc wlxe8de27a17927}% ${wireless_link_bar 4,100 wlxe8de27a17927}
${color light blue}${font Ubuntu:bitalic:size=10}PCI wifi     ${color orange}${wireless_bitrate wlp2s0}
${color lightgray}${voffset -4}${font sans-serif:normal:size=8}Down: ${downspeed wlp2s0}  	${alignr}Up: ${upspeed wlp2s0} 
${color green}${downspeedgraph wlp2s0 15,150 } ${voffset 4} ${alignr}${upspeedgraph wlp2s0 15,150 }$color${voffset 4}
#${color blue}${font sans-serif:normal:size=8} ${voffset 5} Wireless» $hr${color green}
#${color yellow}${wireless_essid wlxe8de27a17927} ${color red}${alignr}Signal: ${color orange}${wireless_link_qual_perc wlxe8de27a17927}% ${wireless_link_bar 4,100 wlxe8de27a17927} 
${color yellow}${wireless_essid wlp2s0} ${color red}${alignr}Signal: ${color orange}${wireless_link_qual_perc wlp2s0}% ${wireless_link_bar 4,100 wlp2s0}
${color cyan}${font sans-serif:bold:size=10}TOP PROCESSES ${hr 2}
${font sans-serif:normal:size=8}${voffset -8}Name $alignr PID   CPU%   MEM%${font sans-serif:normal:size=8}
${top name 1} $alignr ${top pid 1} ${top cpu 1}% ${top mem 1}%
${top name 2} $alignr ${top pid 2} ${top cpu 2}% ${top mem 2}%
${top name 3} $alignr ${top pid 3} ${top cpu 3}% ${top mem 3}%
${top name 4} $alignr ${top pid 4} ${top cpu 4}% ${top mem 4}%
${top name 5} $alignr ${top pid 5} ${top cpu 5}% ${top mem 5}%
${top name 6} $alignr ${top pid 6} ${top cpu 6}% ${top mem 6}%
${top name 7} $alignr ${top pid 7} ${top cpu 7}% ${top mem 7}%
${top name 8} $alignr ${top pid 8} ${top cpu 8}% ${top mem 8}%
]];`

[Caellian]

This isn't supported by conky - it displays only a single window on a single screen by design because it would be redundant to draw a separate window for each screen with identical information.

Assuming you're using Xinerama (and not Wayland), you can draw the same window twice by copying the configuration file, changing xinerama_head in the second file and running two separate conky instances that use different configuration files.

In the other discussion you created, you mentioned changing window_type worked for you on Wayland (not sure why) - so you'd change that across two files instead of xinerama_head, and run two conky instances to display the same window twice on two monitors. You could also change the other file to display some other information on the second monitor.