No problem. Thanks for your reply.
Writing later and thoughtful is even better than writing in a hurry but just in time.

No, checked several times the past weeks...
I hoped for something undocumented or a dirty trick.
A Idea I haven't thought about before... a command that resets the coursor position by accident perhaps?

Thanks, thats good to hear!
But I doubt that there exists demand for such a feature at the desktop Conky... or it would exists since ages.

I'm currently trying to squeeze out of Conky as much information as possible. But the N900 screen is far to small. Because of that I began developing my small project Conky Layout Switcher that makes it possible to switch the Layout live within the config file and without closing conky! - but it seems to get to heavy. The CPU usage is still very high even if it doesn't draw all 4 different layouts at the same time. Perhaps you're interested how it works...

Sadly it seems that I'm unable to store information from a file in a variable, too?

I have to check a lot of times the same files if it has a specific content. I'm able to optimize this a bit (outline the blocks) as soon as the layouts are settled. But this wouldn't fix the main problem fully. Are such query somehow cached within conky or does conky execute them each time?