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Topic: Getting started with lua and cairo for conky

I've been working on writing Lua scripts to display cairo graphics in conky and I thought I would share some of the things I have learned.  So you can go here:
http://thepeachyblog.blogspot.com/2010/ … cairo.html   that has some general information
and
http://thepeachyblog.blogspot.com/2010/ … n-but.html   where i have given a detailed run down of a lua script line by line describing what each part does.
and another annotated Lua script that is a little more complicated.
http://thepeachyblog.blogspot.com/2010/ … n-lua.html
Thought it might help somone get started.

Last edited by mrpeachy (2010-02-08 01:21:09)

It's hard to find something if you don't know what you're looking for.
I have a blog, it's mostly about conky and lua stuff... go here.
  • From: The Forbidden Planet
  • Registered: 2009-11-08
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Re: Getting started with lua and cairo for conky

here's some more script goodness.  an annotated version of a lua script dealing with the use of a settings table and multiple functions, including a local function.
http://thepeachyblog.blogspot.com/2010/ … or-my.html

please feel free to leave me feedback if any of this information is at all helpful smile
or if I'm talking gibberish, let me know that too.

Last edited by mrpeachy (2010-02-10 19:31:37)

It's hard to find something if you don't know what you're looking for.
I have a blog, it's mostly about conky and lua stuff... go here.
  • benj1
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Re: Getting started with lua and cairo for conky

pretty good, i keep meaning to do a new conky/lua setup, this will be a good starting place

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#! install guide           *autostart programs, modify the menu & keybindings
configuring Conky       *installing scripts