28Aug/090
Feature Feature: Built-in Lua Bindings for Cairo
Cairo Pie Screenshot
As you may have read in the Conky 1.7.2 feature tour, one of the most exciting new features is the ability to draw directly to Conky's window, using Cairo and/or imlib2. As a demonstration, our own Brenden wrote a little Lua script to use Cairo to draw top information as a pie chart. I modified the script slightly to make it fit with my current desktop...et voila!
To reproduce the look above, I've packaged my .conkyrc, Brenden's original cairo-pie.lua and the cairo-pie.lua I modified, over on my gnome-look.org profile.
There are other examples of Lua scripts for Conky over at norsetto.890m.com and further samples of Cairo scripts at cairographics.org.
Enjoy!