multiple conky process with xfce session startup

liticovjesac · 2011-06-05 09:38:54

Hi,
since recently I have this problem with conky and xfce startup. When I login into xfce it starts 5 - 10 + conky process. That puts cpu to work up to 25% (pIII). When i kill conky and start it again from terminal it works normal. One process, cpu low.
Using xfce settings manager I disable and remove conky from Session and startup but conky still runs when I login next time. Is there any other place where I should check to disable conky session startup?
At the same time I have gnome3. There conky starts up and works without a problem with login. I was thinking that there maybe some conflict with gnome session startup and xfce so I tried to disable conky in gnome but can't find where is that settings now in gnome3. I tried with gnome-session-properties and there is no conky marked for startup, but when I login to gnome conky starts again?!
In .config/autostart there is no conky mention neither in /etc/xdg/autostart
In lxde and fluxbox conky starts with login and works without problem.
Any sugestion?

Last edited by liticovjesac (2011-06-05 09:40:17)

grandmasterb · 2011-09-17 13:30:35

Hi,
same problem here , after xfce start i have 4 conky processes. i don't have conky aded in startup programs.
on openbox conky starts 1 process. anyone?

moetunes · 2011-09-17 14:39:23

Try logging in with a new session.

Cheers

Padfoot · 2011-09-19 08:04:52

This catches out many people on Xfce.

Your session appears to be auto saving along with conky being started via autostart. So each time you log out, the session is saved with another conky process running, thus when you log in again, all the saved processes are launched again, along with a new process from autostart.

The solution is simple, turn off session saving. The initial clean up (to prevent the multiple processes in future) is easy, but convoluted (without deleting your entire session cache - i don't like advising to do that as you can lose other config that is not messed up).

Here is what you need to do:

1. Open Sessions & Startup dialog and under the general tab, untick Automatically Save, and tick Prompt on Logout. Under the Application Auto Start tab, untick EVERYTHING.

2. Open Task Manager and terminate ALL the conky processes.

3. Close ALL running applications.

3. Log out - but BEFORE clicking the log out button, tick the Save Session box.

4. Log back in, and immediately log back out again, this time, unticking the Save Session box.

5. Log back in, open the Sessions & Startup dialog and re-set you Auto Start Applications (and just double check that Automatically Save is still unticked on the general tab).

6. Finally, log out, and back in again, and all should be back to normal.

Cheers.

grandmasterb · 2011-09-19 16:47:59

thanks moetunes and Padfoot, that fixed my problem:)

oldpond · 2011-12-05 14:38:17

This is still happening to me on a fresh install of arch and xfce4. I am pretty sure I never told it to save my session, but it still seems to want to. I followed your instructions and the problem went away for one boot, but came back later. BTW, you can't kill ALL applications in Task Manager because it wiipes out your desktop.

Right now I have 3 conky's running and I have xfce set to not save my session. Would resetting all my defaults solve the problem?

oldpond · 2011-12-05 14:58:04

This is an upstream bug. https://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7915

See this duplicate as well https://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7696

Padfoot · 2011-12-06 07:24:28

Xfce is set to save you session by default on an install. You need to un-check the option on both sessions & startup and the logout dialog.

Failing that, you can simply delete your session cache to clear out the multiple instances

$ rm -r ~/.cache/sessions/*

Bearing in mind, anything else you have in your saved session will also be wiped out (no need to worry if you don't want anything but default xfce stuff in the loaded session).

Cheers.

Padfoot · 2011-12-06 07:31:17

oldpond wrote:

This is an upstream bug. https://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7915
See this duplicate as well https://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7696

The bugs you refer to are for the session menu panel applet.

Avoid using that applet until fixed. Use the action buttons panel applet fot suspend/reboot/shutdown instead.

Cheers.

Arch Linux

#1 2011-06-05 09:38:54

multiple conky process with xfce session startup

#2 2011-09-17 13:30:35

Re: multiple conky process with xfce session startup

#3 2011-09-17 14:39:23

Re: multiple conky process with xfce session startup

#4 2011-09-19 08:04:52

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#5 2011-09-19 16:47:59

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#6 2011-12-05 14:38:17

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