Thanks, Ralf! The conky.desktop file you listed above, from the XFCE section of https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Conky does indeed autostart conky under Gnome 3. I had no idea a that a config file for XFCE could be used with Gnome. I also found this skeleton ".desktop" file online (from a 2011 posting), that also works: [Desktop Entry] Type=Application Exec=/usr/bin/conky Hidden=false X-GNOME-Autostart-enabled=true Name[en_US]=conky Name=conky Comment[en_US]=conky Comment=conky I don't seem to need the lines from: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Conky#Integrate_with_Gnome_3, although I did need to add "double_buffer yes" to the ~/.conkrc file. Thanks again. On Sat, May 2, 2015 at 12:55 AM, Ralf Mardorf <ralf.mardorf@rocketmail.com> wrote:
On Fri, 1 May 2015 21:36:30 -0500, Francis Gerund wrote:
So, do I need to create a "conky.desktop" file, and if so, how?
"Add a ~/.config/autostart/conky.desktop:
[Desktop Entry] Encoding=UTF-8 Version=0.9.4 Type=Application Name=conky Comment= Exec=conky -d StartupNotify=false Terminal=false Hidden=false" - https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Conky
"Integrate with Gnome 3
Some have experienced problems with conky showing up under Gnome 3.
Add these lines to ~/.conkyrc:
own_window yes own_window_type conky own_window_transparent yes own_window_hints undecorated,below,sticky,skip_taskbar,skip_pager
If you still experience problems with transparency. You could add these lines.
own_window_argb_visual yes own_window_argb_value 255" - https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Conky#Integrate_with_Gnome_3
This might not solve your issue. I'm neither a GNOME, nor a conky user. $ pacman -Qi conky error: package 'conky' was not found
However, if you are used to GUIs and GNOME shouldn't provide GUIs were you can add autostart.desktop files to ~/.config/autostart/ that aren't listed, use the tool of another DE following freedesktop.org thingies, e.g. xfce4-session-settings .