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Ive been searching for a while on these forums, and i have tried all methods , but nothing seems to work to let conky startup with mint.
Any ideas?
THANKS

Gnome

I made the conky_startup file and added it to startup and it still didnt work..
:S

I don't have a ~/.conkyrc file, so here's what I did to get conky running automatically at boot. I created a very simple script (open up a new text file, save it, "chmod +x" it) with the following contents:

#!/bin/bash
sleep 15 &&
conky

("15" is the number of seconds before starting conky at login. I prefer to let it wait 15 seconds to let everything else load first.)

Then I went to Startup Applications and added Conky by entering the path to my script in the "Command:" box. It should hopefully load Conky automatically for you at bootup.

okay.

well, if you don't have a .conkyrc, you're probably not going to see anything.

to determine if conky is actually running after you boot, open a terminal and type ps ax | grep conky and see if there's a process listed called 'conky'

my guess is that conky is running, and does startup on boot -- just you haven't told it to display anything, so it's not.

when i do that thing in the terminal ps ax | blah blah
it comes up with

2440 pts/0 R+ 0:00 grep --colour=auto conky


and thats it
and i am just gonna reboot after trying your other tricks guys!
thanks "D

doesnt work

First, you ask for help, then you don't listen when it is offered. What are we gonna do with you?

These 2 topic threads in this Forum helped me to get Conky working and starting at boot-up.

http://forum.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.ph ... ky#p205064
http://forum.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.ph ... lit=+conky

Read ... follow them ... to the letter.

You should have no problems. If you do then, ask questions. Or PM, one of us.

thanks! it works now!