Conky won't start at login.....but it's in my startup script

[hogfan]

I am having problems getting conky to start at login. I have added it to my /etc/init.d/local.autostart file that I created, after the line that I added to set my laptops screen brightness. I have it set for a delay of 30 to allow the composite manager time to load. After updating I the script I did run:

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sudo update-rc.d local.autostart defaults

However, when I reboot and log back on, the screen brightness is adjusted properly, so I know the script runs, but conky never launches. Here is the content of my local.autostart file. Any help is extremely appreciated.

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#!/bin/sh
### BEGIN INIT INFO
# Provides:             Startup Scripts
# Required-Start:       $all
# Required-Stop:        $all
# Default-Start:        2 3 4 5
# Default-Stop:         0 1 6
# Short-Description:    Automatically starts processes at logon
# Description:          Startup Items
### END INIT INFO

pkexec /usr/lib/gnome-settings-daemon/gsd-backlight-helper --set-brightness  8
conky -p 30 -c '/home/jeremy/.conkyrc' 

-hogfan

[Habitual]

Jeremy:

It would be helpful to know more about your environment.

How about terminal>

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lsb_release -dr

output please?

Thanks!

[hogfan]

Here is the requested output. Thanks.

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jeremy@mintbook ~ $ lsb_release -dr
Description:	Linux Mint Debian Edition
Release:	1

[hogfan]

Ok, I am still fighting with this. I created a new script named .autostart_conky.sh in the folder: /home/jeremy

The contents of the script are:

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#!/bin/sh
sleep 45
conky -c '/home/jeremy/.conkyrc'

Then I made the script executable by doing: sudo chmod +x /home/jeremy/.autostart_conky.sh

I then ran: sudo gnome-session-properties

and Added a new entry pointing to the script .autostart_conky.sh, but when I reboot or logout and back in, conky doesn't start. So I have now tried this two ways and It won't autostart. However, I can open the terminal and paste in: sudo conky -c '/home/jeremy/.conkyrc' and it fires right off. Any ideas? I didn't think that autostarting an application at logon would be this hard.

-hogfan

[hogfan]

Another update. It appears that my .autostart_conky.sh script is not even being executed at logon! However, I can open the terminal and type:

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sudo /home/jeremy/.autostart_conky.sh

And the script runs and launches Conky, so I have verified that the script is executable and works. Any ideas?

-hogfan

[timgood]

I am having exactly the same problem. I can start conky from a direct command or terminal, but autostarting it does not work at all. Strange!

[corn]

I had the same problem, but it solved itself quite "magically", and there are times (it's very rare though) where it won't start on its own. I'm not exactly sure how I got it to work, but I believe I withdrew Composition (xcompmgr) from Startup Applications... it didn't really make sense but it worked.

[dwainehead]

I had that problem to fix it I added as startup applications