Conky: Global variables gets shared between two lua scripts

Created on 18 Nov 2019  路  2Comments  路  Source: brndnmtthws/conky

Issue

I run two lua scripts from conky. Each has a global variable called debug. Each does something if debug is not zero. If I set debug to 1 in one of the scripts, then the _other_ script acts as if _its_ version of the variable had been changed. Is this a known limitation?

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conky 1.11.4_pre. (I would use a more recent version, were I not to encounter bug #821.)

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Internet tells me it is a typical lua behavior because of global variables. Look this up and modify your scripts to add local to everything so you don't accidentally assign wrong overwrite anything.

picture lasers on 18 Nov 2019
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Internet tells me it is a typical lua behavior because of global variables. Look this up and modify your scripts to add local to everything so you don't accidentally assign wrong overwrite anything.

lasers picture lasers on 18 Nov 2019
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Understood.

LinuxOnTheDesktop picture LinuxOnTheDesktop on 18 Nov 2019
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