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#1 2011-02-24 20:11:28

ichase
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Registered: 2011-02-10
Posts: 113

Autostarting Conky in E17

Greetings all,
Have been reading different threads on how to go about doing this.  I created a startup script and named is conkystart.sh and put it in my home directory.

#!/bin/sh
sleep 10 &&
conky -c ~/.conkyrc &

I went to Settings>Settings Panel>Apps>New Application
I then went into the New Application panel, navigated to the startup script I created in my home directory and clicked apply.
I then went to Startup Applications in the same panel clicked on the new conky application and clicked Add
I also noticed that conky itself now shows up under start up applications so I selected that as well.

When I log back in, I get an error stating conky could not be started
ichase/home/conkystart.sh

If I type conky in the terminal it comes up no problem.

When I go to Applications > Other I now see conky and conkystart.sh.  I figured I would remove them both and recreate the startup script.  But there is no way to get rid of them that I can find once it's there.

Any and all suggestions are greatly appreciated.  smile

All the best,

Ian

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#2 2011-02-24 20:37:33

v43
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Registered: 2011-02-03
Posts: 140

Re: Autostarting Conky in E17

there are a number of scripts and folders a desktop environment can source at startup.
my choice is to put everything in ~/.xinitrc and start the programs before my lxde session starts.
try and see if that works wih E17 too smile

PS conky may flicker a bit... it should be load after the wallpaper is set.

Last edited by v43 (2011-02-24 20:41:05)

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#3 2011-02-24 22:00:43

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Re: Autostarting Conky in E17

Did you change the permissions to make the script executable?


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#4 2011-02-25 13:04:04

ichase
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Registered: 2011-02-10
Posts: 113

Re: Autostarting Conky in E17

ewaller wrote:

Did you change the permissions to make the script executable?

Thanks for the reply ewaller, yes I made the script executable.

@ v43  Thank you also for the reply.  I have been trying to find a way to correctly put it in my ~/.xinitrc as well as adding Enlightenment so that when I boot up, I don't have to log in and type "startx"

All the best,

Ian

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#5 2011-02-25 20:22:05

v43
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Registered: 2011-02-03
Posts: 140

Re: Autostarting Conky in E17

this is how i do it:

case "`tty`" in
/dev/tty1) clear && startx &>/dev/null && exit;;
esac

put this code in your ~/.bash_profile and X server will automatically start after you log in in terminal #1.
maybe you wanna look at this article about autologin https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Au … al_console

Last edited by v43 (2011-02-25 20:24:53)

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#6 2011-02-25 22:54:31

dannyg123
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Registered: 2010-12-19
Posts: 11

Re: Autostarting Conky in E17

I use gnome but this should work for pretty much any DE

touch .conky_start.sh 
 nano .conky_start.sh 
#!/bin/bash

sleep 20 && conky;
chmod 755 .conky_start.sh

and then all you have to do is add this to your startup apps


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#7 2011-06-03 18:55:38

rbrob
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Registered: 2011-06-03
Posts: 1

Re: Autostarting Conky in E17

When I installed conky (aur/conky-lua-nv 1.8.1-1), conky.desktop was not created.
I then went to Settings>Settings Panel>Applications>New Application and created the file which was automatically placed in ~/.local/share/applications/

The content of the file is:

[Desktop Entry]
Hidden=false
Exec=/usr/bin/conky
Type=Application
NoDisplay=false
Version=1.0
StartupNotify=false
Terminal=false
Name=conky
Name[en_US]=conky

After that, I placed the line "conky.desktop" at the bottom of of the file ~/.e/e/applications/startup/.order

When I log into Enlightenment, conky starts up without any problems.

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#8 2011-08-10 03:44:51

TheHebes
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Registered: 2011-07-07
Posts: 138

Re: Autostarting Conky in E17

I just have "conky -b &" sit right above "exec enlightenment_start" in my ~/.xinitrc file. Conky starts without a hitch every time.


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