I have been using a special conky for a long time.
It’s AstroNerd conky. It shows Solar activity in numbers and graphs, 5 nearest asteroids, and Moon phases.
Bar graphs work as they should in EndeavourOS KDE, but not work at all on CachyOS KDE, LTS and default kernels.
More over. I cannot install neither conky-cairo nor conky-manager2 (version 2.7) because of dependencies problems.
Does this mean CachyOS is not conky-friendly and it is not advisable to use conky at all?
Is it possible to make lua work on CachyOS?
See screenshot
paru -Qi conky-manager2
Installed From : None
Name : conky-manager2-git
Version : 2.7-3
Description : Fork of GUI for managing Conky widgets. Support added for latest conky config version - git
Architecture : x86_64
URL : https://github.com/zcot/conky-manager2
Licenses : GPL3
Groups : None
Provides : conky-manager2
Depends On : cairo conky desktop-file-utils gtk3 imagemagick json-glib libgee p7zip rsync
Optional Deps : None
Required By : None
Optional For : None
Conflicts With : None
Replaces : None
Installed Size : 1290.26 KiB
Packager : Unknown Packager
Build Date : Tue 07 May 2024 12:37:20 PM MDT
Install Date : Tue 24 Sep 2024 08:08:25 AM MDT
Install Reason : Explicitly installed
Install Script : No
Validated By : None
paru -Qi conky-lua
Installed From : None
Name : conky-lua-nv
Version : 1.21.6-1
Description : Lightweight system monitor for X with lua and nvidia enabled
Architecture : x86_64
URL : https://github.com/brndnmtthws/conky
Licenses : GPL BSD
Groups : None
Provides : conky conky-lua
Depends On : glibc glib2 cairo lua wireless_tools libxdamage libxinerama libxft imlib2 libxml2 ncurses
libncursesw.so=6-64 libxnvctrl libXNVCtrl.so=0-64 systemd-libs libsystemd.so=0-64 libpulse
libpulse.so=0-64 curl libcurl.so=4-64 fontconfig gcc-libs libx11 libxdamage pango wayland
Optional Deps : nvidia: for NV11 and newer GPUs, [installed]
nvidia-470xx-dkms: for NVE0 (Maxwell) GPUs,
nvidia-390xx-dkms: for NVC0 and GF1XX (Fermi) GPUs
nvidia-340xx-dkms: for NV40 and G70 (Curie) GPUs
Required By : conky-manager2-git
Optional For : None
Conflicts With : conky
Replaces : torsmo conky
Installed Size : 1810.11 KiB
Packager : Unknown Packager
Build Date : Mon 02 Sep 2024 04:06:00 PM MDT
Install Date : Tue 24 Sep 2024 08:08:23 AM MDT
Install Reason : Installed as a dependency for another package
Install Script : Yes
Validated By : None
I’m on KDE-Un-stable but that should not matter.
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Thank you!
I tried both files.
paru -Qi conky-lua-nv
and conky-manager2
“package not found” in both cases.
But packages are present in AUR
you have to install them first 
that’s no problem here
both packages are to install smoothly
DE = gnome, plasma
paru -Qi doesn’t see conky packages in AUR.
paru conly-lua-nv cannot install neither conky nor conky-manager2 on KDE.
I have no problems with installation on Endeavour OS, cannot install on CachyOS.
I had that issue a few months back, afair it was [Bug]: Bars not displayed under wayland · Issue #1504 · brndnmtthws/conky · GitHub
These are not conflicts, but dependencies? Also is there any real reason to use conky-cairo (or any other AUR version)? If there isn’t stick with the official version.
no idea what’s going wrong at yours 
no problems during install
did
paru conky-lua-nv
and got
❯
paru -Qi conky-lua-nv
Installed From : Nichts
Name : conky-lua-nv
Version : 1.21.6-1
Beschreibung : Lightweight system monitor for X with lua and nvidia enabled
Architektur : x86_64
URL : https://github.com/brndnmtthws/conky
Lizenzen : GPL BSD
Gruppen : Nichts
Stellt bereit : conky conky-lua
Hängt ab von : glibc glib2 cairo lua wireless_tools libxdamage libxinerama libxft imlib2
libxml2 ncurses libncursesw.so=6-64 libxnvctrl libXNVCtrl.so=0-64 systemd-libs
libsystemd.so=0-64 libpulse libpulse.so=0-64 curl libcurl.so=4-64 fontconfig
gcc-libs libx11 libxdamage pango wayland
Optionale Abhängigkeiten : nvidia: for NV11 and newer GPUs,
nvidia-470xx-dkms: for NVE0 (Maxwell) GPUs,
nvidia-390xx-dkms: for NVC0 and GF1XX (Fermi) GPUs
nvidia-340xx-dkms: for NV40 and G70 (Curie) GPUs
Benötigt von : Nichts
Optional für : Nichts
In Konflikt mit : conky
Ersetzt : torsmo conky
Installationsgröße : 1806,03 KiB
Packer : Unknown Packager
Erstellt am : Fr 27 Sep 2024 10:41:23 CEST
Installiert am : Fr 27 Sep 2024 10:42:30 CEST
Installationsgrund : Ausdrücklich installiert
Installations-Skript : Ja
Verifiziert durch : Nichts
Those are dependencies, so everything that it needs to install and make it work.
Can’t see any error why it wouldn’t install, unless there is a problem with some of the packages (Aur packages can do that sometimes if they are not maintained etc)
If I install conky-cairo or conky-lua-nv
I got a list of dependencies and an offer:
To continue review of not?
If I answer N - paru stops installing
If I answer Y or just press ENTER, paru shows the long text and no installation.
So, where is my mistake?
I managed to install conky-manager2-git. Given the same offer to continue review or now, I just pressed ENTER and installation proceeded smoothly. But not with conkies. And yes, I removed conky-manager2-git before installing conky-lua-nv or conky-cairo
In that review part you need to press Q and then it asks something like “do you want to continue y/n”
This is normal with Paru if you install packages from the AUR.
Paru can also install packages from arch repositories where it wont ask to review the pkgbuilds as those are “trusted” packages, not like AUR where its free-reign
THANK YOU VERY VERY MUCH!
Go figure!
I just used yay or pacman, or pamac so far.
paru is new for me.
For paru: read, q, install 
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THANK YOU ALL VERY MUCH FOR THE HELP AND SUPPORT!
I installed conky-lua-nv, and now everything works.
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So glad things worked out for you, If I had known you was not familiar with “paru” I would have been a bit more detailed, but our community jumped in to save the day. 
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Thank you. Everything works now. But I had to modify my crontab job in CachyOS. Everything works so fast that AstroNert conky failed to start at reboot. I had to add delay of 45 seconds. Never experienced this issue on any other distro. )
Just to inform. The Sun is calm, no activity, the closest asteroid of 10 meters in diameter flies behind the Moon. No worry. 
I contacted the developer of conky on GitHub,
and he told me it was really a bug.
What is necessary to do is to add the following line to a lua file just under
require ‘cairo’ at the beginning of the file.
require ‘cairo_xlib’
One shall be careful. Some lua files are line (or row) sensitive.
So add the above line in so a way just to keep the whole number of lines in the file intact. I added a line to Astro conky, and got no result. Many lines in the lua file got red (crying out loud of error). I almost got mad, before I understood that I just shifted the whole text one line down. So the solution was to delete some empty line. And a miracle happened immediately! Everything started to work. 
Very Kind of you to share that>>>Kudos
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