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lua with cairo doesnt work in conky

Hi,

I try to use Lua with cairo in conky. But whenever I try to execute conky I get this error:

Code:

bash-4.1$ conky -c .conkyrc_test

Conky: llua_load: /home/expander/clock.lua:71: module 'cairo' not found:

        no field package.preload['cairo']

        no file './cairo.lua'

        no file '/usr/share/lua/5.1/cairo.lua'

        no file '/usr/share/lua/5.1/cairo/init.lua'

        no file '/usr/lib64/lua/5.1/cairo.lua'

        no file '/usr/lib64/lua/5.1/cairo/init.lua'

        no file '/usr/lib/conky/libcairo.so'

        no file './cairo.so'

        no file '/usr/lib64/lua/5.1/cairo.so'

        no file '/usr/lib64/lua/5.1/loadall.so'

Conky: desktop window (ac) is root window

Conky: window type - override

Conky: drawing to created window (0x2200001)

Conky: drawing to double buffer

I have installed this dependencies:

lua
tolua++

I've also installed all possible cairo I found at SlackBuild:
cairo-compmgr
cairo-dock
cairo-dock-plugins
cairomm Libraries
perl-cairo

conky -v gives this:

Code:

bash-4.1$ conky -v

Conky 1.8.1 compiled Wed Aug 17 11:53:12 CEST 2011 for Linux 3.0.1-eXpander (x86_64)



Compiled in features:



System config file: /usr/etc/conky/conky.conf

Package library path: /usr/lib/conky



 X11:

  * Xdamage extension

  * XDBE (double buffer extension)

  * Xft

  * ARGB visual



 Music detection:

  * MPD

  * MOC



 General:

  * math

  * hddtemp

  * portmon

  * config-output

  * Imlib2

  * apcupsd

  * iostats

  * ncurses

  * Lua



  Lua bindings:

  * Cairo

  * Imlib2

One can see that my conky should support Lua and with cairo bindings and Imlib2. What do I miss? Or is there a Lua5.1 package I need to install?

I appreciate any help, thanks.

Quote:

Originally Posted by eXpander_ (Post 4445655)

Code:

bash-4.1$ conky -c .conkyrc_test

Conky: llua_load: /home/expander/clock.lua:71: module 'cairo' not found:

        no field package.preload['cairo']

        no file './cairo.lua'

        no file '/usr/share/lua/5.1/cairo.lua'

        no file '/usr/share/lua/5.1/cairo/init.lua'

        no file '/usr/lib64/lua/5.1/cairo.lua'

        no file '/usr/lib64/lua/5.1/cairo/init.lua'

        no file '/usr/lib/conky/libcairo.so'

        no file './cairo.so'

        no file '/usr/lib64/lua/5.1/cairo.so'

        no file '/usr/lib64/lua/5.1/loadall.so'

Conky: desktop window (ac) is root window

Conky: window type - override

Conky: drawing to created window (0x2200001)

Conky: drawing to double buffer

I actually don't know what is going on but it looks like you have conky in /usr/lib and the rest of the files in the list above in /usr/lib64. I would first fix that issue and then it might fix the problem or at least reduce the number of problem(s).

Can you post the contents of .conkyrc_test?

Might give a hint ;)
P.S: did you install conky from slakbuilds or from source?

Quote:

Originally Posted by larryhaja (Post 4446132)

I did a "find / -name "conky"" and this is the result:
/usr/local/lib/conky
/usr/bin/conky

Is that correct or should conky be installed somewhere else? If I manually try to find the files above, this is the result:

Code:

bash-4.1# find / -name "cairo.lua"

#nothing



bash-4.1# find / -name "init.lua"

#nothing



bash-4.1# find / -name "libcairo.so"

/usr/lib/libcairo.so

/usr/local/lib/libcairo.so

/usr/lib64/libcairo.so



bash-4.1# find / -name "cairo.so"

#nothing



bash-4.1# find / -name "loadall.so"

#nothing

It did find libcairo.so, however in other directories. But none of the rest were found.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Root-Minuz (Post 4446158)

Can you post the contents of .conkyrc_test?

Might give a hint ;)
P.S: did you install conky from slakbuilds or from source?

I did install from source, but builded a package with src2pkg. Perhaps I should install from Slackbuild instead? But it seems that some cairo package is missing. When executing:
lua -l 'cairo', it gives same error.

Thanks for all your answers!

I did compiled from SlackBuild with LUA=yes ./conky.SlackBuild. However, still same error.

When executing lua -l 'cairo' or lua -l 'imlib2' I get this errors:

Code:

 bash-4.1$ lua -l 'cairo'

lua: module 'cairo' not found:

        no field package.preload['cairo']

        no file './cairo.lua'

        no file '/usr/local/share/lua/5.1/cairo.lua'

        no file '/usr/local/share/lua/5.1/cairo/init.lua'

        no file '/usr/local/lib/lua/5.1/cairo.lua'

        no file '/usr/local/lib/lua/5.1/cairo/init.lua'

        no file './cairo.so'

        no file '/usr/local/lib/lua/5.1/cairo.so'

        no file '/usr/local/lib/lua/5.1/loadall.so'

stack traceback:

        [C]: ?

        [C]: ?



bash-4.1$ lua -l 'imlib2'

lua: module 'imlib2' not found:

        no field package.preload['imlib2']

        no file './imlib2.lua'

        no file '/usr/local/share/lua/5.1/imlib2.lua'

        no file '/usr/local/share/lua/5.1/imlib2/init.lua'

        no file '/usr/local/lib/lua/5.1/imlib2.lua'

        no file '/usr/local/lib/lua/5.1/imlib2/init.lua'

        no file './imlib2.so'

        no file '/usr/local/lib/lua/5.1/imlib2.so'

        no file '/usr/local/lib/lua/5.1/loadall.so'

stack traceback:

        [C]: ?

        [C]: ?

I did find some "luacairo-1.10.2.0-src". But I get an error when trying to compile:

Code:

bash-4.1$ make

gcc -Wall -O2 -fPIC -c \

`pkg-config --cflags lua5.1` \

`pkg-config --cflags cairo` \

`pkg-config --cflags gtk+-2.0` \

`pkg-config --cflags gdk-2.0` \

lcairo.c

In file included from lcairo.c:193:0:

lcairo-ft-font.c:68:12: error: redefinition of 'l_cairo_ft_font_face_create_for_                                                                                                  pattern'

lcairo-ft-font.c:20:12: note: previous definition of 'l_cairo_ft_font_face_creat                                                                                                  e_for_pattern' was here

lcairo-ft-font.c:77:12: error: redefinition of 'l_cairo_ft_font_options_substitu                                                                                                  te'

lcairo-ft-font.c:27:12: note: previous definition of 'l_cairo_ft_font_options_su                                                                                                  bstitute' was here

In file included from lcairo.c:196:0:

lcairo-image-surface.c: In function 'l_cairo_image_surface_get_data':

lcairo-image-surface.c:85:5: warning: pointer targets in passing argument 2 of '                                  lua_pushlstring' differ in signedness

/usr/include/lua.h:163:16: note: expected 'const char *' but argument is of type                                    'unsigned char *'

lcairo.c: At top level:

lcairo-private.h:414:23: warning: 'l_cairo_xcb_device_debug_cap_xshm_version' de                                    clared 'static' but never defined

lcairo-private.h:415:23: warning: 'l_cairo_xcb_device_debug_cap_xrender_version'                                                                            declared 'static' but never defined 

lcairo-ft-font.c:20:12: warning: 'l_cairo_ft_font_face_create_for_pattern' defin                                        ed but not used

lcairo-ft-font.c:27:12: warning: 'l_cairo_ft_font_options_substitute' defined bu                                        t not used

make: *** [lcairo.o] Error 1

I have no idea what to do.

*EDIT: Have anyone here managed to get lua-cario bindings to work with conky (Slackware 13.37)? If so, could you please share your lua-script and conkyrc-file?

cairo and imlib2 bindings for lua are bundled with conky (since 1.7.4), and normally you should have them installed in /usr/lib64/conky/.
I tried to follow the example here and works fine (besides the font).
I suspect you've got something wrong in your conky config files, but I don't use this so I cannot be of more help :(

Quote:

Originally Posted by ponce (Post 4446778)

Hi,

thanks for your answer.

The problem on the lua example from http://wiki.conky.be/index.php?title=Lua_Cario_bindings, is the following row:

require 'cairo'

Im just wondering, do you have the listed files above? This files:

Code:

lua: module 'cairo' not found:

        no field package.preload['cairo']

        no file './cairo.lua'

        no file '/usr/local/share/lua/5.1/cairo.lua'

        no file '/usr/local/share/lua/5.1/cairo/init.lua'

        no file '/usr/local/lib/lua/5.1/cairo.lua'

        no file '/usr/local/lib/lua/5.1/cairo/init.lua'

        no file './cairo.so'

        no file '/usr/local/lib/lua/5.1/cairo.so'

        no file '/usr/local/lib/lua/5.1/loadall.so'

I suspect you haven't created in your home the cairo.lua file required by the example (on that same page) and loaded in the rc by lua_load

Code:

lua_load ~/cairo.lua

I put all the code from the example in a new file called cairo.lua. I also create that .conkyrc.cairo file. I do everything that says on the page... I still cannot get it to work. Then when I execute:
conky -d -f "Radio Space" -c .conkyrc.cairo

I get this:

Conky: llua_load: ./cairo.lua:3: loop or previous error loading module 'cairo'

???????

here works fine.
if the files are exactly the same as the guide, maybe it's because of all the stuff you installed before from source (always use slackbuilds): I would suggest you to try with a fresh account or with a fresh install.

Thats the thing. I tried this on a newly fresh installed Slackware on a computer. Same error.

However, there is one thing that connect my laptop to that computer, both use custom compiled kernel 3.0.1. Maybe it has something to do with that?

no, 3.0.2-ck here, but I think it doesn't matter at all.
sorry if I repeat, it works on a fresh install with lua, tolua++ and conky, all from slackbuilds.org.
so if you tried, you got something else wrong (or you are using the same home for your user and what breaks it is there).

No, it is two different, my laptop, and a stationary PC. On the stationary PC I installed lua, tolua++ from sbopkg and conky from SlackBuild. I installed conky with LUA=yes ./conky.SlackBuild.

Oh my...

Just one last question, what is your Pixman and X.org version?

Mine is:

Code:

bash-4.1$ X -version



X.Org X Server 1.10.3

Release Date: 2011-07-08

X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0

Build Operating System: Linux 2.6.37.6 x86_64 

Current Operating System: Linux darkstar 3.0.1-eXpander #1 SMP PREEMPT Thu Aug 11 20:24:20 CEST 2011 x86_64

Kernel command line: BOOT_IMAGE=eXpander_3.0.1 ro root=802 vt.default_utf8=0

Build Date: 10 August 2011  11:34:34PM

 

Current version of pixman: 0.22.2

        Before reporting problems, check http://wiki.x.org

        to make sure that you have the latest version.

I'm using the ones provided with slackware (I suppose you do not).

Quote:

Originally Posted by ponce (Post 4447516)

I'm using the ones provided with slackware (I suppose you do not).

Ok, thanks for your time and help.

I've upgraded everything with src2pkg, because I want to build slackware-specific packages, I dont do manually installation now. Anyway, I will test to do a fresh install with Slackware on another computer, and then just add conky. I will report back here.