Conky for Fossapup and converting the config file to a new Lua-like format

[Grey]

Subj. Fossapup has this Conky version on board: "1.10.8 for Linux 4.4.0-176-generic x86_64". Apparently it was not compiled in Fossa itself. And for some reason it uses the old conkyrc file storage format.
If I run a script /root/Startup/conkystart in terminal, I see a syntax error message (it's old syntax):

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I had to do something about it. I have compiled the latest Conky (1.11.6) in Fossapup. Here it is in .pet format:
https://yadi.sk/d/A5aIxI4USl4Zog
Installed. Now we need to convert /root/conkyrc to new Lua-like format. Go to the /usr/local/share/doc/conky-1.11.6_pre folder and make convert.lua script executable (right mouse button >> Permissions). Note: Lua is required, so if you don't already have it, install from PPM. Then execute in terminal:

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/usr/local/share/doc/conky-1.11.6_pre/convert.lua /root/conkyrc conkyrc_new

Rename conkyrc to conkyrc_old. Rename conkyrc_new to conkyrc
In the resulting conkyrc file, find the line "own_window_type" and remove one extra equal sign and one space.
It was wrong:
own_window_type = '= desktop',
It became correct:
own_window_type = 'desktop',

I didn't delete the built-in version of Conky just in case. Therefore, we modify the file /root/Startup/conkystart.
Change the line conky -c /root/conkyrc & to /usr/local/bin/conky -c /root/conkyrc &

Launch Menu >> System >> Conky. I removed the daemon start from it and now /root/Startup/conkystart is used.
We look at the terminal and now there are no errors:

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[lizardidi]

thanks!!!

[Jasper]

Hi Grey

I was wondering if you point out my errors in following your steps?

I downloaded your Pet file but did not know which version of LUA to install from the PPM.

I did compile a Pet file that I need for VLC which had the same name but this does not appear to work.

Conky celebrates it's 9th birthday and I was wondering why all builds appear to have the same conkyrc configuration file.

Decided to have a change for myself and found a lot of scripts available on the net to try out.

Your help would be appreciated, I know this is an old thread

**EDIT**
Updated Conky here for Fossapup64_9.5 viewtopic.php?p=74110#p74110