# See README.md for details on doc processing. # # The `desc` field can be formatted with markdown, but please do not include # headings (lines beginning with `#`) in the `desc` field. # # The supported fields are: # # * `name`: the name of the thing # * `desc`: a markdown-formatted description of the thing # * `args`: optional list of arguments # * `default`: an optional default value, if applicable --- desc: |- Conky features a Lua Programming API, and also ships with Lua bindings for some useful libraries. Note that the bindings require tolua++, which currently only compiles against Lua 5.1. To use Lua Conky, you first need to make sure you have a version of Conky with Lua support enabled (`conky -v` will report this). Conky defines certain global functions and variables which can be accessed from Lua code running in Conky. Scripts must first be loaded using the lua_load configuration option. You then call functions in Lua via Conky's $lua, $lua_read, and Lua hooks. Be careful when creating threaded objects through the Lua API. You could wind up with a whole bunch of threads running if a thread is created with each iteration. NOTE: In order to accommodate certain features in the cairo library's API, Conky will export a few additional functions for the creation of certain structures. These are documented below. values: - name: cairo_font_extents_t:create() desc: |- Call this function to return a new cairo_font_extents_t structure. A creation function for this structure is not provided by the cairo API. After calling this, you should use tolua.takeownership() on the return value to ensure ownership is passed properly. - name: cairo_font_extents_t:destroy(structure) desc: |- Call this function to free memory allocated by cairo_font_extents_t:create. - name: cairo_matrix_t:create() desc: |- Call this function to return a new cairo_matrix_t structure. A creation function for this structure is not provided by the cairo API. After calling this, you should use tolua.takeownership() on the return value to ensure ownership is passed properly. - name: cairo_matrix_t:destroy(structure) desc: |- Call this function to free memory allocated by cairo_matrix_t:create. - name: cairo_text_extents_t:create() desc: |- Call this function to return a new cairo_text_extents_t structure. A creation function for this structure is not provided by the cairo API. After calling this, you should use tolua.takeownership() on the return value to ensure ownership is passed properly. - name: cairo_text_extents_t:destroy(structure) desc: |- Call this function to free memory allocated by cairo_text_extents_t:create. - name: conky_build_arch desc: |- A string containing the build architecture for this particular instance of Conky. - name: conky_build_date desc: |- A string containing the build date for this particular instance of Conky. - name: conky_build_info desc: |- A string containing the build info for this particular instance of Conky, including the version, build date, and architecture. - name: conky_config desc: |- A string containing the path of the current Conky configuration file. - name: conky_info desc: |- This table contains some information about Conky's internal data. The following table describes the values contained: | Key | Value | |-----------------|---------------------------------------| | update_interval | Conky's update interval (in seconds). | - name: conky_parse(string) desc: |- This function takes a string that is evaluated as per Conky's TEXT section, and then returns a string with the result. - name: conky_set_update_interval(number) desc: |- Sets Conky's update interval (in seconds) to 'number'. - name: conky_version desc: |- A string containing the version of the current instance of Conky. - name: conky_window desc: |- This table contains some information about Conky's window. The following table describes the values contained: NOTE: This table is only defined when X support is enabled. | Key | Value | |---------------------|---------------------------------------------------------------------------------| | drawable | Window's drawable (Xlib Drawable), requires Lua extras enabled at compile time. | | visual | Window's visual (Xlib Visual), requires Lua extras enabled at compile time. | | display | Window's display (Xlib Display), requires Lua extras enabled at compile time. | | width | Window width (in pixels). | | height | Window height (in pixels). | | border_inner_margin | Window's inner border margin (in pixels). | | border_outer_margin | Window's outer border margin (in pixels). | | border_width | Window's border width (in pixels). | | text_start_x | The x component of the starting coordinate of text drawing. | | text_start_y | The y component of the starting coordinate of text drawing. | | text_width | The width of the text drawing region. | | text_height | The height of the text drawing region. |