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Finally, with version 1.10.0-5, conky started to work again and finally understood all commands of my configuration. All? Well, it still doesn't recognize 'pre_exec', but I substituted this command with an 'execi 3600', which will do for the time being. I've put the configuration file of my Lifebook [here](https://pdes-net.org/scripts/conkyrc_system_lua). For those interested in the weather, there's also a [config file](https://pdes-net.org/scripts/conkyrc_weather_lua) of a weather conky. Both look exactly as in [this screenshot](../images/desktop_170715_90.webp).

**Update, 04/23/16:** The weather conky is broken since Yahoo locked its weather API. The workaround posted [here](https://blog.wturrell.co.uk/workaround-for-broken-yahoo-weather-xml-feed-oauth/) stopped working a few days later. Plenty of alternatives exist, but I haven't found the time yet to examine them.

**Update, 04/24/16:** Found [another](https://gist.github.com/ask-compu/3844946fe75ddaba8f11a510a39c22db) workaround. Let's see how long that one lasts...

**Update, 01/03/19:** [It's dead, Jim.](https://developer.yahoo.com/weather/)
*Important EOL Notice: As of Thursday, Jan. 3, 2019, the weather.yahooapis.com and query.yahooapis.com for Yahoo Weather API will be retired.*
