Anyone else's conky break with today's update?

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Here, this is the one I’m using on XFCE and that works in rewriting his usage code since Conky 1.10 the configuration files have been written with a new Lua syntax :

$ pacman -Ss conky
extra/conky 1.11.5-4 [installé]
Lightweight system monitor for X

$ lua -v
Lua 5.4.0  Copyright (C) 1994-2020 Lua.org, PUC-Rio

By default the Conky file is into

~/.config/conky/conky.conf

You could create it with :

mkdir -p ~/.config/conky && conky --print-config > ~/.config/conky/conky.conf

To check the Conky file you are using :

$ conky --debug
DEBUG(0) [/build/conky/src/conky-1.11.5/src/conky.cc:2513]: reading contents from config file '~/.config/conky/conky.conf'

File conky.conf built on this way then I noticed that to comment, it works like this :

conky.config = {
-- comment a line
}

conky.text = [[
# comment a line is different than UP
]]

To make it Autostart just needs to create a basic conky.desktop file into /home/username/.config/autostart/ adding the code below (increase the pause value depending your system to be sure your background picture is loaded before the conky in case you don’t see it !) :

File conky.desktop

[Desktop Entry]
Type=Application
Name=conky
Exec=conky --daemonize --pause=12
StartupNotify=false
Terminal=false

Conky File conky.conf :

--[[
-- Conky EndeavourOS FLVAL 
-- Adapted for EOS wallpaper
-- https://forum.endeavouros.com/t/some-wallpapers-till-the-real-artists-drop-by/159/27?u=flval
]]

conky.config = {
    use_xft = true,
    xftalpha = .8,
    update_interval = 2.0,		-- seconds
    override_utf8_locale = true,
    font = 'pftempestafivecondensed:size=12',
    text_buffer_size = 8000,
    background = true,
    own_window_argb_visual = true,
    own_window_argb_value = 0,
    own_window = true,
    own_window_class = 'Conky',
    own_window_transparent = false,
    own_window_type = 'desktop',
    own_window_hints = 'undecorated,below,sticky,skip_taskbar,skip_pager',
    own_window_colour = 000000,
    minimum_height = 0,
    minimum_width = 0,
    maximum_width = 170,
    gap_x = 40,
    gap_y = 0,
    alignment = 'middle_right',
    use_spacer = 'none',
    draw_shades = false,
    draw_outline = false,
    draw_borders = false,
    stippled_borders = 0,
    border_width = 1,
    double_buffer = true,
    no_buffers = false,
    uppercase = true,
    cpu_avg_samples = 2,
    top_cpu_separate = false,
    net_avg_samples = 2,
    temperature_unit = 'celsius',
    pad_percents = 0,			-- what is below, decimal places
    short_units = true,			-- short version of the disk size 612.21M/3.80G
    draw_graph_borders = true,
    extra_newline = false,
    out_to_console = false,
    out_to_ncurses = false,
    out_to_stderr = false,
    out_to_x = true,
    show_graph_range = false,
    show_graph_scale = false,

    color1 = '10141f',			-- EndeavourOS black --
    color2 = 'c2c2c2',			-- grey light
    color3 = '7FE8FF',			-- blue User
    color4 = '7f7fff',			-- EndeavourOS blue
    color5 = '7f3fbf',			-- EndeavourOS violet
    color6 = 'ff7f7f',			-- EndeavourOS orange
    color7 = '280b0b',			-- EndeavourOS red dark
    color8 = '47B35D',			-- EndeavourOS green

    default_color = 'white',		    -- white
    default_outline_color = 'black',	-- Black
    default_shade_color = 'black', 	    -- Black
}
conky.text = [[
${font pftempestafivecondensed:size=28}${utime %H:%M:%S}${voffset -20}
${color2}${font pftempestafivecondensed:size=12}${time %a %d %b %Y}$color

${font ZegoeUI:bold:size=12}${color8}SYSTEM$color
${font pftempestafivecondensed:size=10}${color2}SYS:$color${fs_used /} > ${color2}${fs_size /}
${fs_bar 8,160 /}
${color2}HOME: $color${fs_used /home} > ${color2}${fs_size /home}
${fs_bar 8,160 /home}
${color2}CPU: $color${exec cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep 'model name' | cut -c 14-30 | uniq}
${color2}${cpugraph 15,160}${voffset -21}
${alignc}${cpu cpu0}%
${color2}FREQ: $color${freq} MHz
${color2}TEMP: $color${hwmon 0 temp 1} °C
${color2}RAM : $color$mem > ${color2}$memmax
${membar 8,160}
${color2}SWAP: $color$swap > ${color2}$swapmax
${swapbar 8,160}

${font ZegoeUI:bold:size=12}${color8}NETWORK$color
${font pftempestafivecondensed:size=10}${color2}IP: $color${addr enp0s20}
${if_up enp0s20}${color2}ULOAD: $color${upspeed enp0s20}/s 
${color2}${upspeedgraph enp0s20 16,160 000000 000000}
${color2}DLOAD: ${downspeed enp0s20}/s
${downspeedgraph enp0s20 16,160 000000 000000}$color${endif}

${font ZegoeUI:bold:size=12}${color8}USER$color
${font pftempestafivecondensed:size=10}${color2}Number: $color$user_number
${font pftempestafivecondensed:size=10}${color5}$user_names$color ${uptime}

${font ZegoeUI:bold:size=12}${color8}DISTRO$color
${font pftempestafivecondensed:size=10}${execi 86400 lsb_release -si} ${execi 86400 lsb_release -sr} ${execi 86400 lsb_release -sv}
${kernel}
${sysname} $color
#${machine} uncomment to see it ! 
${color2}CONKY ${conky_version}$color
]]

Don’t forget to adapt the network name enp0s20 to yours :
You could get it with :

$ file /sys/class/net/*
/sys/class/net/enp0s20: symbolic link to

To use the Lua scripts from man conky add :

lua_load
Loads the Lua scripts separated by spaces.

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