[arch-general] Conky autostart problem

[Francis Gerund]

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 at 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 .
>