[gentoo-user] Re: Awesome WM, io.popen() attempt to index io nil value

[trevor donahue]

http://www.lua.org/manual/5.1/manual.html#5.7
the doc
also found on other resources scripts using IO not io, that still aint
working...

On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 3:14 PM, trevor donahue <donahue.trevor@×××××.com>wrote:

> Hi folks,
> is anyone of you using awesome wm?
> I've been struggling with a little bit of a problem lately, wanted to
> create a widget that retrieves gmail data using curl. The problem
> encountered is the function io.popen() that returns nil [attempt to index
> io nil value] (as having an error in lua) even though not doing anything
> special, tested also with ls -l and other trivial bash commands...
>
> Can somebody help me resolve the problem?
>



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Thanks,
Donahue Trevor