Mintmenu won't load at startup (conflict with Conky?)

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I know, why bother if LMDE2 is coming, anyway we will upgrade soon... But for the moment, we have to work with LMDE1. I have LMDE1 MATE. So... I have an annoying bug since a week that I cannot solve: Mintmenu and the desktop icons (MATE) won't load at startup, they load only after 20-30 seconds, causing conky to crash. In other words: at startup, first loads conky with the Mate panel and Cairo-dock,, then Conky crashes, and Mintmenu and desktop icons appears. I have to manually load Conky again, then the desktop behavior is normal.
I cannot explain why this bug appeared. The only change I did in the past week was to take my custom Conky to Conky Manager. I have tried different time delays for Conky to avoid the (supposed) conflict: 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, up to 45 seconds, but no luck.

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Update: changing my custom conky to another one available in the conky manager, solves the conflict. I wonder why. My custom conky is the same since 2012 and never caused conflict with mintmenu...

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I someone would help me, I post here my customized conky:

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# Use Xft?
use_xft yes
xftfont Roboto:size=10
xftalpha 0.8
text_buffer_size 2048

# Update interval in seconds
update_interval 1

# This is the number of times Conky will update before quitting.
# Set to zero to run forever.
total_run_times 0

# Create own window instead of using desktop (required in nautilus)
own_window yes
own_window_transparent yes
own_window_type override
#own_window_hints undecorated,below,sticky,skip_taskbar,skip_pager

# Use double buffering (reduces flicker, may not work for everyone)
double_buffer yes

# Minimum size of text area
minimum_size 182 0
maximum_width 182

# Draw shades?
draw_shades no

# Draw outlines?
draw_outline no

# Draw borders around text
draw_borders no

# Stippled borders?
stippled_borders 0

# border margins
border_margin 5

# border width
border_width 1

# Default colors and also border colors
default_color white
#default_shade_color black
#default_outline_color white
own_window_colour white

# Text alignment, other possible values are commented
#alignment top_left
alignment top_right
#alignment bottom_left
#alignment bottom_right

# Gap between borders of screen and text
# same thing as passing -x at command line
gap_x 30
gap_y 49

# Subtract file system buffers from used memory?
no_buffers yes

# set to yes if you want all text to be in uppercase
uppercase no

# number of cpu samples to average
# set to 1 to disable averaging
cpu_avg_samples 4

# number of net samples to average
# set to 1 to disable averaging
net_avg_samples 2

# Force UTF8? note that UTF8 support required XFT
override_utf8_locale yes

# Add spaces to keep things from moving about?  This only affects certain objects.
use_spacer none


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XFRANK ${hr 2}
${goto 6}${voffset 6}${font openlogos:size=22}t${font}${goto 36}${voffset -18}${color #FF9933}${pre_exec cat /etc/issue.net} $machine
${goto 36}Kernel: ${kernel} ${color white}
${hr 2}


${goto 6}${font StyleBats:size=16}A${font}${voffset -4}${goto 32}CPU1: ${cpu cpu0}% ${alignr}${cpubar cpu0 8,60}
${goto 6}${voffset 4}${font StyleBats:size=16}A${font}${voffset -4}${goto 32}CPU2: ${cpu cpu1}% ${alignr}${cpubar cpu1 8,60}
${goto 6}${voffset 4}${font StyleBats:size=16}A${font}${voffset -4}${goto 32}CPU3: ${cpu cpu2}% ${alignr}${cpubar cpu2 8,60}
${goto 6}${voffset 4}${font StyleBats:size=16}A${font}${voffset -4}${goto 32}CPU4: ${cpu cpu3}% ${alignr}${cpubar cpu3 8,60}
${goto 6}${voffset 4}${font StyleBats:size=16}g${font}${voffset -4}${goto 32}Mem: ${mem} ${alignr}${membar 8,60}
${goto 6}${voffset 4}${font StyleBats:size=16}x${font}${voffset -4}${goto 32}Disk: ${diskio}${alignr}${diskiograph 8,60 F57900 FCAF3E}
${goto 6}${voffset 4}${font StyleBats:size=16}q${font}${voffset -4}${goto 32}Uptime: ${alignr}${uptime}
${goto 6}${voffset 4}${font StyleBats:size=16}k${font}${voffset -4}${goto 32}Processes: ${alignr}$processes ($running_processes running)
${goto 7.5}${voffset 4}${font Poky:size=15}a${font}${goto 32}${voffset -10}Highest: ${alignr 13}CPU${alignr}RAM
${goto 32}${voffset -5.5}${hr 1}
${voffset -1}${goto 32}${top name 1} ${goto 124}${top cpu 1}${alignr }${top mem 1}
${voffset -1}${goto 32}${top name 2} ${goto 124}${top cpu 2}${alignr }${top mem 2}
${voffset -1}${goto 32}${top name 3} ${goto 124}${top cpu 3}${alignr }${top mem 3}
${voffset -1}${goto 32}${top name 4} ${goto 124}${top cpu 4}${alignr }${top mem 4}

Time & Date ${hr 2}


${font Clarendon URW T OT:size=34}${alignc}${time %H:%M}${font}
${color #FF9933}${alignc}${time %A, %B %d, %Y}${color white}


HDD ${hr 2}
${font Poky:size=16}y${font} ${voffset -5}File System
${voffset 4}${fs_free /}/${fs_size /} ${alignr}${fs_bar 8,60 /}
${font Poky:size=16}y${font} ${voffset -5}Home
${voffset 4}${fs_free /home}/${fs_size /home} ${alignr}${fs_bar 8,60 /home}


Network ${hr 2}
${if_up wlan1}
${font Poky:size=14}Y${font}${goto 32}${voffset -8}SSID: ${wireless_essid wlan1}
${goto 32}Signal: ${wireless_link_qual wlan1}% ${alignr}${wireless_link_bar 8,60 wlan1}
${voffset 8}${font StyleBats:size=14}V${font}${goto 32}${voffset -6}Up: ${upspeed wlan1}${font} ${alignr}${upspeedgraph wlan1 20,60 080FF 81DAF5}
${goto 112}Total: ${totalup wlan1}
${voffset 8}${font StyleBats:size=14}9${font}${goto 32}${voffset -6}Down: ${downspeed wlan1}${font} ${alignr}${downspeedgraph wlan1 20,60 F57900 FCAF3E}
${goto 112}Total: ${totaldown wlan1}
${voffset 8}${font Poky:size=13}w${font}${goto 32}${voffset -8}Local IP: ${alignr}${addr wlan1}