[arch-general] Conky autostart problem

[Maarten de Vries]

On 2 May 2015 at 21:13, Ralf Mardorf <ralf.mardorf at rocketmail.com> wrote:

> On Sat, 2 May 2015 11:35:03 -0500, Francis Gerund wrote:
> >I had no idea a that a config file for XFCE could be used with Gnome.
>
> The *.desktop files in ~/.config/autostart/ are a freedesktop.org
> specification. Xfce and GNOME follow this specification. The WMs I'm
> using, JWM and openbox don't use ~/.config/autostart/.
>
> http://standards.freedesktop.org/autostart-spec/autostart-spec-latest.html
>

​Note that you can use a standalone application like dex if your WM doesn't
start applications from ~/.config/autostart. You can put it in your xinitrc​

​or possibly your WM configuration.​