how to make conky run @ startup under both Cinnamon and MATE

[TomRoche]

After upgrading UP3->UP4 I note conky runs at startup only under MATE, not Cinnamon. How to make that work for both? I see a description here about making it work under Cinnamon, but I'm still evaluating both desktops.

[azertywarrior12]

I can confirm that conky runs fine under Cinnamon just by adding it on the Startup Applications program. Although I did have a small problem because in my conky script I used sudo hddtemp so the script would always fail on start-up (because it would ask for password) then I added hddtemp to the sudo no password list and everything has been working fine.

Are you using any commands which require elevated privileges on your conky script?

[äxl]

Tom, Cinnamon and MATE use different Window Managers. Could be that you have to set up different .conkyrc's as well.
Maybe it is running. Check with System Monitor or in terminal with pgrep.

Depends also on how you start Conky. If you have it in Startup Applications make sure it's not unticked in Cinnamon.
In terminal you could look at ~/.config/autostart/<conky>.desktop and make sure it doesn't contain something like:
OnlyShowIn=MATE;
X-GNOME-Autostart-enabled=false;
etc.

[ChickenPie4Tea]

I couldnt get it to show up in Cinamon but it runs fine in Mate - I am just sticking with mate it seems to have less quirks for now.

[TomRoche]

In terminal you could look at ~/.config/autostart/<conky>.desktop and make sure it doesn't contain something like:
OnlyShowIn=MATE;
X-GNOME-Autostart-enabled=false;

No: my ~/.config/autostart/conky.desktop has

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[Desktop Entry]
Type=Application
Exec=/home/me/bin/conky-startup.sh
Hidden=false
NoDisplay=false
X-GNOME-Autostart-enabled=true
Name[en_US]=conky
Name=conky
Comment[en_US]=desktop system monitor
Comment=desktop system monitor


[azertywarrior12]

May I ask what's the content of your conky-startup.sh?

To be honest, I don't think you even need it. This is the content of my conky.desktop shortcut and it works fine under cinnamon. :S

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[Desktop Entry]
Type=Application
Exec=conky
Hidden=false
NoDisplay=false
X-GNOME-Autostart-enabled=true
Name[en_US]=Conky
Name=Conky
Comment[en_US]=Auto run conky
Comment=Auto run conky.


[TomRoche]

what's the content of your conky-startup.sh?

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#!/bin/bash
# This makes conky 'window' truly transparent when run from Startup Applications.
# Otherwise, window 'has shadow' == {!transparent && alwaysOnTop}
# sleep 10 && conky
sleep 20 && conky


[äxl]

Have you looked here: viewtopic.php?f=190&t=101150&hilit=conky+startup
viewtopic.php?f=90&t=102221&hilit=conky+startup
viewtopic.php?f=212&t=80838&hilit=conky+startup
And here: viewtopic.php?f=199&t=101426&hilit=conky+autostart

[NotoriousPyro]

Sorry for bumping a somewhat old thread but I solved mine by putting the following in /home/<user>/.profile (you could also put it in /etc/profile)

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conky -c $HOME/.conky/conky_right&

Where anything after -c points to your conky configuration file (don't forget to put the & or you'll be stuck on a black screen with only Conky).