Conky With Lua

Themes, icons, wallpapers, etc.
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#21 Post by battleshooter »

@jemimah

Cool, nice to know someone's giving Conky switcher some love. I'll add a link to the first post for Saluki users. The latest Saluki 019 looks awesome by the way, really looking forward to messing around with it tonight. :)

@XBlackChaosX

Nope, don't get rid of "#!/bin/sh". It's to tell the system it's a script.

Just add conky -c /path/to/conkyrc on the line beneath it.

@r4m0n3

Sorry man, not really sure what the problem is :? Your screenshot looks normal, what do you mean exactly by "can't see the actual background in any theme" What background? Not running Wbar shouldn't be a problem.
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#22 Post by sc0ttman »

Trying to run the Suuuuny theme from jemimahs updated .pet and conky won't load - I get the following errors in the terminal:

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Conky: llua_load: /root/.conky/Suuuuny/text.lua:8: module 'cairo' not found:
        no field package.preload['cairo']
        no file './cairo.lua'
        no file '/usr/local/share/lua/5.1/cairo.lua'
        no file '/usr/local/share/lua/5.1/cairo/init.lua'
        no file '/usr/local/lib/lua/5.1/cairo.lua'
        no file '/usr/local/lib/lua/5.1/cairo/init.lua'
        no file '/usr/share/lua/5.1/cairo.lua'
        no file '/usr/share/lua/5.1/cairo/init.lua'
        no file '/usr/lib/conky/libcairo.so'
        no file './cairo.so'
        no file '/usr/local/lib/lua/5.1/cairo.so'
        no file '/usr/lib/lua/5.1/cairo.so'
        no file '/usr/local/lib/lua/5.1/loadall.so'
With the conky_grey theme:

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Conky: llua_load: /root/.conky/conky_grey/conky_grey.lua:10: module 'cairo' not found:
        no field package.preload['cairo']
        no file './cairo.lua'
        no file '/usr/local/share/lua/5.1/cairo.lua'
        no file '/usr/local/share/lua/5.1/cairo/init.lua'
        no file '/usr/local/lib/lua/5.1/cairo.lua'
        no file '/usr/local/lib/lua/5.1/cairo/init.lua'
        no file '/usr/share/lua/5.1/cairo.lua'
        no file '/usr/share/lua/5.1/cairo/init.lua'
        no file '/usr/lib/conky/libcairo.so'
        no file './cairo.so'
        no file '/usr/local/lib/lua/5.1/cairo.so'
        no file '/usr/lib/lua/5.1/cairo.so'
        no file '/usr/local/lib/lua/5.1/loadall.so'

I've used various liblua packages... Any ideas anyone?
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#23 Post by sc0ttman »

ignore my post above, i was missing the libcairo and libimlib2 stuff in /usr/lib/conky
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#24 Post by battleshooter »

Ah ok, glad you got it sorted Scott, sorry I wasn't of more assistance :?
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#25 Post by battleshooter »

@r4m0n3

Oh right sorry, no the backgrounds don't come with the packages, they were just examples of what you could do with the Conky theme. Were there any particular wallpapers you were after?
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#26 Post by alwaysalonee »

However, if there is a black screen around where Conky is, let me know, and I'll help you tweak your system settings to get rid of the black.

i am getting black screen ..
i am on lucid puppy 5.2.8 ..
openbox as WM ...
i've downloaded conky pets from
please help
thanks ..

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#27 Post by jaydee »

aa, if the black window is persistent, check the position of

feh --bg-scale /root/.background in /root/.xinitrc .

the code line: rox -p /root/Choices/ROX-Filer/PuppyPin appears at least twice (i remember they reside in an if - else statement), so try to place it before the other instance. (this is what i was doing wrong the first time around).

alternatively, with conky enabled, use nathan's wallpaper setter and change the wp image.
See if transparency appears (which is what the
feh --bg-scale $IMAGE
cp -f $IMAGE /root/.background
code in the file /usr/local/apps/Wallpaper/set_bg does).

i have a sneaky suspicion that half the enjoyment of conky is trying to get it to work they way you like. Hang in there

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#28 Post by battleshooter »

@jaydee

Thanks much for replying alwaysalonee, I'm busy these days and don't always get around to answering questions.

@alwaysalonee
Let us know how you go with jaydee's suggestion.
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#29 Post by alwaysalonee »

sorry for late replay
i tried jd's suggestion but didn't work
conky was running fine on XFCE wm but now XFCE is not loading itself :(

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#30 Post by battleshooter »

alwaysalonee wrote:sorry for late replay
i tried jd's suggestion but didn't work
conky was running fine on XFCE wm but now XFCE is not loading itself :(
Hmmm, XFCE... that could be a little different because it comes with real transparency. Alright, back to the topic on hand, what was the last thing you edited before XFCE didn't start? Are you able to load into other window managers like JWM?
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#31 Post by alwaysalonee »

yes jwm also gives black screen ..
before a while when i mount my usb it used to be green dot on icon but now it gives red dot on usb drive icon , is it a problem ?
i am gonna reinstall puppy and try again , i hope XFCE will load fine then

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#32 Post by battleshooter »

alwaysalonee wrote:yes jwm also gives black screen ..
before a while when i mount my usb it used to be green dot on icon but now it gives red dot on usb drive icon , is it a problem ?
i am gonna reinstall puppy and try again , i hope XFCE will load fine then
Yes, if you reinstall Puppy, XFCE should work again. If you enable compositing in XFCE, you shouldn't need to go through any of the steps except for installing the basic pets:

conky-1.8.1.pet
liblua5.1-0_5.1.4-5_i386.deb
libiconv-1.14.pet

and then just starting up a Conky theme normally. Be warned that the default Conky theme does have a black box around it so don't be fooled by it into thinking your Conky setup isn't working, test with a different theme.
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#33 Post by alwaysalonee »

after installing, it works well on xfce and openbox. in openbox it takes some seconds to completely vanish black screen but it's ok coz finally it's working :)

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#34 Post by battleshooter »

alwaysalonee wrote:after installing, it works well on xfce and openbox. in openbox it takes some seconds to completely vanish black screen but it's ok coz finally it's working :)
Very glad to hear that! So just to clarify, you reinstalled, didn't mess with the .xinitrc file and now there's no black box around Conky? If yes, great! Good job for sticking with it :)
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#35 Post by alwaysalonee »

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#36 Post by alwaysalonee »

conky stopped working again, same problem :(
alternatively, with conky enabled, use nathan's wallpaper setter and change the wp image.
See if transparency appears (which is what the
feh --bg-scale $IMAGE
cp -f $IMAGE /root/.background
code in the file /usr/local/apps/Wallpaper/set_bg does).
this is not working ...
aa, if the black window is persistent, check the position of
feh --bg-scale /root/.background in /root/.xinitrc .
the code line: rox -p /root/Choices/ROX-Filer/PuppyPin appears at least twice (i remember they reside in an if - else statement), so try to place it before the other instance. (this is what i was doing wrong the first time around).
jd can you make above more clear please , how to do it and what is that ?

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#37 Post by battleshooter »

Whoa, slow down alwaysalonee, because you're running XFCE the steps listed earlier may not apply to your situation.

Can you please run this in a terminal a copy and paste the result?

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xfconf-query -c xfwm4 -p /general/use_compositing
This will tell whether you have compositing enabled, if you do, we need to take a different route to get Conky working.

Do you have any idea what could have caused Conky to stop working again?
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#38 Post by alwaysalonee »

no i am not running xfce + compiz for regular use now i made it's lupusave file separatly so i can load it only when i wanna play with compiz
i am running openbox for regular use and in it conky stopped working

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#39 Post by battleshooter »

alwaysalonee wrote:no i am not running xfce + compiz for regular use now i made it's lupusave file separatly so i can load it only when i wanna play with compiz
i am running openbox for regular use and in it conky stopped working
Ahhh, I understand now, it's an OpenBox desktop that you're trying to run Conky on. How did you originally setup Conky in the OpenBox desktop? Did you follow the instructions from the first post, or did Conky just work?
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#40 Post by alwaysalonee »

i installed all .pets from the 1st post and from desktop->conky switcher i get it working but with Black Screen
i dled conky normal switcher my screen res is 1360*768 , conky wide swithcer also didnt work , black screen ..

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