Searching this forum leads me to suspect that not many ArchLabbers use Conky OR no ArchLabbers had any hassles wrt the breakage that happened a few months ago. I offer this in hope that it might somehow assist some future readers.
Disclaimer: I claim no credit at all for this – all the smarts belong to others, whose clever work i have simply purloined.
My short-term workaround of several months had been to downgrade lua back to 5.3.5 … with that step all my Conky configs remained fine & dandy, thus all their Conkies still work. Like Nixers globally, the lua update initially broke all my Conkies.
However by definition holding an important package back indefinitely is unviable & hazardous, for a rolling distro. Yesterday i invested the hours necessary to research the problem, test the solution in my Arch VM, then deploy it for real in my Arch SSD. Shortly i hope to also deploy it in my other Archie VMs including both ArchLabs ones.
This breakage applied to Nixers who run the “traditional” Conky, & to those like me who use Conky-Manager for convenience.
Important References:
- https://forum.endeavouros.com/t/anyone-elses-conky-break-with-todays-update/6538
- https://forum.endeavouros.com/t/conky-manager/6569
- https://github.com/brndnmtthws/conky/issues/992
- https://github.com/brndnmtthws/conky/issues/991#issuecomment-670769356
- https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/conky-manager2-git/
- https://www.archlinux.org/packages/community/x86_64/conky-manager/
- https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/conky-manager2-git
- https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/conky-cairo-no-nvidia/
- https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/conky-cairo/
Steps:
- Remove the hold on
luain/etc/pacman.conf, ie, editIgnorePkg = luaback toIgnorePkg =. - Re-upgrade
luafrom 5.3.5-3 -> 5.4.0-2. - Uninstall Arch Community repo’s
Conky-Manager2.4-4. - Install AUR packages
conky-cairo-no-nvidia[atm 1.11.5-2] [or use the nvidia alternative if necessary] &conky-manager2-git[atm 2.7-2]. If they need to remove existing Community repo variants, let them. - Download script https://github.com/brndnmtthws/conky/blob/master/extras/convert.lua, make it executable [
chmod +x convert.lua], then run it against your configs. Usage:convert.lua old_conkyrc [new_conkyrc]. - Launch
conky-manager2, start each of the converted Conkies. - Enjoy.
