Conky Manager stopped working after updating and restarting the system.
Someone knows what happened and how to fix it?
I tried to reinstall but the result is still the same - doesn’t work.
Learn searching forum first 
And welcome! 
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I’m looking for Conky Manager problem but not just Conky which is ok.
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I’m looking for Conky Manager problem but not just Conky which is ok.
What output do you get if you run it from a terminal?
I get this message:
conky: error while loading shared libraries: liblua.so.5.4: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
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Yeah then it’s same as thread i’ve linked,LUA problem…Figured it would be same
Downgrade lua as advised there 
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I’ve tried 2 variants:
conkymanager: command not found
conky_manager: command not found
That sounds like a partial upgrade to me… like you downgraded lua ?
Is it installed? You can find the executable with e.g. pacman -Ql conky-manager | grep "/bin/"
Conky works without problems.
Conky Manager doesn’t
Yes, it installed
And thats what I got
pacman -Ql conky-manager | grep “/bin/”
conky-manager /usr/bin/
conky-manager /usr/bin/conky-manager
There’s the command to run.
That what I got now:
[13:27:35] Desktop: xfce
[13:27:35] Found theme pack [installed]: /usr/share/conky-manager/themepacks/default-themes-2
.1.cmtp.7z
[13:27:35] App config loaded: ‘/home/sergio/.config/conky-manager.json’
[13:27:36] Searching for conkyrc files… 13 found
conky: Syntax error (…/.conky/Gotham/AP-info-debianUpdates-coloursMod-oldsyntx:2: unexpecte
d symbol near ‘#’) while reading config file.
conky: Assuming it’s in old syntax and attempting conversion.
conky: [string “…”]:159: attempt to call a nil value (global ‘loadstring’)
conky: Syntax error (/home/sergio/.conky/TeejeeTech/Network Panel:2: unexpected symbol near ’
#’) while reading config file.
conky: Assuming it’s in old syntax and attempting conversion.
conky: [string “…”]:159: attempt to call a nil value (global ‘loadstring’)
Will try to look into the file.
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I have downgraded lua…
I can open Manager itself, but it doesn’t react - nothing appears on screen.
I suspect that either it’s broken because Conky is broken due to the lua update, or it’s broken because it needs rebuilding with lua 5.4.
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Well, in this case I need to wait only when it is repaired.
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I think I will waiting too 
Fwiw.
It’s not convenient atm to update my SSD’s Arch KDE, so instead i updated my matching VM.
Before: All my Conkies were running fine as normal, & Conky-Manager worked fine.
After: None of my Conkies auto-started like they’re supposed to. CM still launched fine from Menu, but failed to start any of my Conkies despite repeated attempts. Closing CM then relaunching from Konsole revealed only this:
kdemeoz@archlinuxVM[~] $> conky-manager
Gtk-Message: 21:21:32.715: Failed to load module "appmenu-gtk-module"
[21:21:32] Desktop: unknown
[21:21:32] Found theme pack [installed]: /usr/share/conky-manager/themepacks/default-themes-2.1.cmtp.7z
[21:21:32] App config loaded: '/home/kdemeoz/.config/conky-manager.json'
[21:21:33] Searching for conkyrc files... 18 found
^C
kdemeoz@archlinuxVM[~] $>
Then downgrading lua as per others’ recent posts, made it all happy again.
Summary
kdemeoz@archlinuxVM[~] $> downgrade lua
Available packages:
- 1) lua 5.3.5 2 x86_64 (remote)
- 2) lua 5.3.5 3 x86_64 (remote)
- 3) lua 5.3.5 3 x86_64 (local)
4) lua 5.4.0 1 x86_64 (remote)
+ 5) lua 5.4.0 2 x86_64 (remote)
+ 6) lua 5.4.0 2 x86_64 (local)
select a package by number: 3
[sudo] password for kdemeoz:
loading packages...
warning: downgrading package lua (5.4.0-2 => 5.3.5-3)
resolving dependencies...
looking for conflicting packages...
Package (1) Old Version New Version Net Change
lua 5.4.0-2 5.3.5-3 -0.11 MiB
Total Installed Size: 1.03 MiB
Net Upgrade Size: -0.11 MiB
:: Proceed with installation? [Y/n]
(1/1) checking keys in keyring [#########################################] 100%
(1/1) checking package integrity [#########################################] 100%
(1/1) loading package files [#########################################] 100%
(1/1) checking for file conflicts [#########################################] 100%
(1/1) checking available disk space [#########################################] 100%
:: Processing package changes...
(1/1) downgrading lua [#########################################] 100%
:: Running post-transaction hooks...
(1/1) Arming ConditionNeedsUpdate...
add lua to IgnorePkg? [y/N] y
kdemeoz@archlinuxVM[~] $>
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