new Conky syntax beginning from version 1.10

[oberon]

After some confusion and searching I finally found out about the new syntax Conky expects from version 1.10
Unfortunately 'man conky' points you to a non-existent directory .
The example file you will find here: /usr/share/doc/conky-1.10.0/conky.conf
Your new conky.config file will look something like

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conky.config = {
    alignment = 'top_left',
    background = false,
...
}
conky.text = [[
${scroll 16 $nodename - $sysname $kernel on $machine | }
...
]]
wow 
Have fun re-writing your Conkies everyone!

Also have a look at this arch-forum thread about current issues with the latest conky release: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=199217

[papajoke]

thanks,
my 3 conkys  fixed

note :
replace "minimum_size" key by minimum_height and minimum_width
for comments : -- is ok in  block config and between blocks but, in bock text is not -- but again  #

[CyberWolf2k14]

And to think, I was going to "learn lua" in THE FUTURE..meaning sometime MUCH further than now.
Oh well, I at least found something that MIGHT be helpful in that link you provided oberon.
And, besides, if all else fails, I can rollback to previous and block updates to it. 

[oberon]

for comments : -- is ok in  block config and between blocks but, in bock text is not -- but again  #

pffff - good to know!  
Thank you for pointing that out 

[CyberWolf2k14]

Now, if only the online references can get updated to show all the correct syntax and such it would be glorious.
Not to mention down right helpful.

[Cubanpit]

Setting document as Lua script in mousepad helped me a lot in modifying my old conky.conf 

[oberon]

That's a good idea!
And the format of the file seems to be important.
Do you know more about that?
I just realized that an identical looking config written in Mousepad without the Lua-Script setting gives weird errors while it looks exactly the same ...
It gives

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'}' expected (to close '{' at line 1) near '=') while reading config file.while line 1 looks like this:

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conky.config = {and line 30 after all the settings like that:

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}Opening and saving the file again with Mousepad and the Lua-Settings renders the file usable  What's the secret behind that??
That's weird!

[Cubanpit]

I haven't tried "with and without", but I can say that this error happened also to me, because I haven't notice that the config lines must end with a comma.
So conky thinks that the config part should end after the first line without comma, and ask you to close config definition.

[oberon]

Hm. The comma thing was correct and, as I say, I didn't change anything but the (whatever) format and I removed some tabs and it worked. I had copied the original config in from the forum, so don't know what formatting was already in there - anyway it was not visible - that makes it a bit difficult

[oberon]

The error here seems to have been caused simply by a line commented out the old way with '#' instead of the lua-way '--'
... 

[markmarques]

Thanks for the fast reply...

But I have already seen the forum tread and changed my .conkyrc file accordinly ...
So If I call conky latest version it does launch with the correct syntax ( LUA script I think... )

(With the latest fiddling with the system I realize that my "freezing" problems perhaps are not conky related )   

Still reading the conky documentation details in order to find the option to reuse the char display ...

Although, as I wrote before, still do not know how to launch a terminal by default at xfce startup ...
Any ideas ?

[Strit]

It seems that conky 1.10 is backwards compatible or something.
I still use the old syntax in my conky's and they show just fine with conky 1.10 installed.

[oberon]

Are you sure you're not using Conky-lua?
What's your

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pacman -Q conky?

[Chrysostomus]

Conky-cli at least is. It complains about old syntax on startup and displays info happily after that. I could not get the new syntax working, so I just use the old.

[Strit]

Are you sure you're not using Conky-lua?
What's your

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pacman -Q conky?

On my laptops:

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pacman -Q conky
conky 1.10.0-5
On my desktop I am using conky-lua, but that was for testing out a lua conky at some point.