1.8.0 tour

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Conky 1.8.0 is primarily a maintenance release, however it contains a near rewrite of the internal data gathering mechanism, as well as a few other interesting features. See below for details.

[edit] New Features

• Conky now supports 'true' transparency by way of ARGB visuals in Xorg. This can be enabled by using a window manager that supports Xorg compositing. The own_window_argb_visual, own_window_argb_value, and own_window_transparent config settings can then be used to adjust accordingly.
• Conky now uses an internal threaded callback based system for retrieving data from various data sources.
• Conky's Lua Cairo bindings now provide an interface to create certain types of objects, such as the cairo_text_extents_t C struct.
• The automatic config reload feature can now be disabled by way of the disable_auto_reload config setting.
• Added a host of $pid_* options which allow the retrieval of stats for particular PIDs, and a new $cmdline_to_pid option.
• Added the -p/--pause command line option; if you needed a script to startup conky with a delay now you can get rid of it.
• Added support for $weather_forecast (using xoap), which gives up to 5 days forecast data for a given location.
• Many new other additions, like:
  • support for max_text_width
  • IPv6 support to $tcp_portmon and mpd connections
  • support for $format_time
  • support for $uid_name and $gid_name
  • support for $running_threads
  • support for $user_time
  • support for out_to_ncurses
  • support for $include
  • icon data_type for xoap weather (usable to easily get weather images displayed)
  • middle_middle as an alignment option
  • hddtemp_host and hddtemp_port as config options
  • lua_startup_hook and lua_shutdown_hook
  • times_in_seconds and update_interval_on_battery config options
  • conky_info lua table
  • optional adapter option to $acpiacadapter (defaults to "AC")

[edit] Removed Features

• the adt746x objects have been removed.