I had a number of problems with conky and linux mint 13. These were all fixed for me by using conky 1.9.0-2, after finding this information on page 1991 of a conky forum on ubuntu forums.
These are the locations of the conky 1.9.0-2 files:
32bit- https://launchpad.net/~vincent-c/+archi ... 1_i386.deb
64bit- https://launchpad.net/~vincent-c/+archi ... _amd64.deb
Another tip is to use, in startup applications:
conky -p 10
where 10 is the number of seconds pause. This saves having to use bash.
Hope this helps.




