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Ventil1

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Registered: 2010-03-17

Posts: 140

Got conky, lua doesn't work... pls help me[Solved]

Hi,
I got conky installed. I want those pretty rings that I see people have. I got lua installed. I tried a few conky configs with lua but the lua doesn't show.

When I type lua in terminal i get this:

[marko@arch ~]$ lua
Lua 5.1.4  Copyright (C) 1994-2008 Lua.org, PUC-Rio
>

[marko@archbang ~]$ conky -v
Conky 1.8.0 compiled Tue Mar 30 22:49:25 UTC 2010 for Linux 2.6.32-ARCH (x86_64)

Compiled in features:

System config file: /etc/conky/conky.conf
Package library path: /usr/lib/conky

 X11:
  * Xdamage extension
  * XDBE (double buffer extension)
  * Xft
  * ARGB visual

 Music detection:
  * MPD
  * MOC

 General:
  * math
  * hddtemp
  * portmon
  * Curl
  * RSS
  * wireless
  * support for IBM/Lenovo notebooks
  * config-output
  * Imlib2
  * ALSA mixer support
  * apcupsd
  * iostats
  * ncurses

What should I do next?

Last edited by Ventil1 (2010-07-06 09:40:51)

hume's doona

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Registered: 2009-12-11

Posts: 206

Re: Got conky, lua doesn't work... pls help me[Solved]

pacman -R conky
yaourt -S [url=http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=31589]conky-lua[/url]

hume's doona

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Registered: 2009-12-11

Posts: 206

Re: Got conky, lua doesn't work... pls help me[Solved]

obviously I failed at the url

Ventil1

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Registered: 2010-03-17

Posts: 140

Re: Got conky, lua doesn't work... pls help me[Solved]

Should I install conky-lua-nv since I have nvidia card?
What is the difference between conky-lua and conky-lua-nv?

Last edited by Ventil1 (2010-07-06 09:30:15)

hume's doona

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Re: Got conky, lua doesn't work... pls help me[Solved]

I have the nvidia version, but it's pretty useless. You're better off monitoring your graphics card with nvidia-settings, it's down the bottom somewhere in the gui... it's a pain, but more accurate than the nv conky script

Ventil1

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Registered: 2010-03-17

Posts: 140

Re: Got conky, lua doesn't work... pls help me[Solved]

OK. Thank you hume's doona

hume's doona

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Re: Got conky, lua doesn't work... pls help me[Solved]

OK. Thank you hume's doona

No worries, I put up an alternate install for rings and/or nvidia on the wiki too, with a sample