Leap 42.1 Gnome shell Conky issue

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In Leap 42.1 Gnome edition everything works well except a small thing in my Conky script.

I try to let conky display the name and release of openSUSE that I am using with the code

${pre_exec lsb_release -d | cut -f 2| tr ":upper:]" ":lower:]"}

On the desktop this gives the result

${pre_exec}

Anybody an idea how to get it working?

This code worked nicely in openSUSE 13.2 ; so unless something dramatic changed in openSUSE it should be working.

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On Fri 06 Nov 2015 06:36:02 PM CST, VincentvdBergh wrote:

In Leap 42.1 Gnome edition everything works well except a small thing in
my Conky script.

I try to let conky display the name and release of openSUSE that I am
using with the code

Code:

${pre_exec lsb_release -d | cut -f 2| tr “:upper:]” “:lower:]”}

On the desktop this gives the result > ${pre_exec}

Anybody an idea how to get it working?

This code worked nicely in openSUSE 13.2 ; so unless something dramatic
changed in openSUSE it should be working.

Hi
In conky version 10.x everything changed to lua, have you converted
your conkyrc to the correct syntax?

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I didn’t knew conky switched to lua in version 1.10.

Apparently everthing within my conky was already written " Lua proof" except this tiny bit.

Would you happen to know where I can find some decent stuff on how to Lua script as my Google searches only end with pages that look like working at NASA or totally irrelevant.

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Never mind. Got a work around by using

${execi 60 lsb_release -d}

instead.

Apparently the

pre_exec

does not work in Conky 1.10, only in Conky 1.09.xx or earlier.