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nihonto

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Registered: 2007-08-29

Posts: 5

Conky disappers when Gnome-Desktop starts

Hi there,

I've installed conky as a systemmonitor and would like to let it start when my Gnome-Desktop starts. To achieve this, I put the "conky"-command under System -> Preferences -> Session. In principle this works, because when Gnome starts, I can see that conky is startet, too.

But when Gnome starts Metacity, conky ist shifted to the background (or whatever). With "top" I can see, that it's still running, but I can't see it anymore.

Does anyone know, how I can start conky automatically when Gnome starts up?

If you're interested or may it helps - here is my .conkyrc:

# Create own window instead of using desktop (required in nautilus)
own_window yes
own_window_type override
own_window_transparent yes
own_window_hints undecorated,below,sticky,skip_taskbar,skip_pager

# Use double buffering (reduces flicker, may not work for everyone)
double_buffer yes

# fiddle with window
use_spacer yes
use_xft yes

# Update interval in seconds
update_interval 3.0

# Minimum size of text area
# minimum_size 250 5

# Draw shades?
draw_shades no

# Text stuff
draw_outline no # amplifies text if yes
draw_borders no
xftfont Arial:size=10
uppercase no # set to yes if you want all text to be in uppercase

# Stippled borders?
stippled_borders 3

# border margins
border_margin 9

# border width
border_width 10

# Default colors and also border colors, grey90 == #e5e5e5
default_color white

own_window_colour black
own_window_transparent yes

# Text alignment, other possible values are commented
#alignment top_left
alignment top_right
#alignment bottom_left
#alignment bottom_right

# Gap between borders of screen and text
gap_x 10
gap_y 10

# stuff after 'TEXT' will be formatted on screen

TEXT
$color
${color orange}SYSTEM ${hr 2}$color
$nodename $sysname $kernel on $machine

${color orange}CPU ${hr 2}$color
${freq}MHz   Load: ${loadavg}   Temp: ${acpitemp}
$cpubar
${cpugraph 000000 ffffff}
NAME             PID       CPU%      MEM%
${top name 1} ${top pid 1}   ${top cpu 1}    ${top mem 1}
${top name 2} ${top pid 2}   ${top cpu 2}    ${top mem 2}
${top name 3} ${top pid 3}   ${top cpu 3}    ${top mem 3}
${top name 4} ${top pid 4}   ${top cpu 4}    ${top mem 4}

${color orange}MEMORY / DISK ${hr 2}$color
RAM:   $memperc%   ${membar 6}$color
Swap:  $swapperc%   ${swapbar 6}$color

Root:  ${fs_free_perc /}%   ${fs_bar 6 /}$color
home:  ${fs_free_perc /home}%   ${fs_bar 6 /home}$color
CDRom:  ${fs_free_perc /mnt/cdrom}%   ${fs_bar 6 /mnt/cdrom}
DVD:  ${fs_free_perc /mnt/dvd}%   ${fs_bar 6 /mnt/dvd}

${color orange}NETWORK (${addr eth0}) ${hr 2}$color
Down: $color${downspeed eth0} k/s ${alignr}Up: ${upspeed eth0} k/s
${downspeedgraph eth0 25,140 000000 ff0000} ${alignr}${upspeedgraph eth0
25,140 000000 00ff00}$color
Total: ${totaldown eth0} ${alignr}Total: ${totalup eth0}
Inbound: ${tcp_portmon 1 32767 count} Outbound: ${tcp_portmon 32768
61000 count}${alignr}Total: ${tcp_portmon 1 65535 count}

${color orange}LOGGING ${hr 2}$color
${execi 30 tail -n3 /var/log/messages.log | fold -w50}

${color orange}FORTUNE ${hr 2}$color
${execi 120 fortune -s | fold -w50}

muczyjoe

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From: Szeged (Hungary)

Registered: 2007-05-16

Posts: 45

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Re: Conky disappers when Gnome-Desktop starts

Perhaps you could try:
sleep 4 && conky
So it waits 4 seconds, in which gnoem can load, and then it'll start cconky

mucknert

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From: Berlin // Germany

Registered: 2006-06-27

Posts: 510

Re: Conky disappers when Gnome-Desktop starts

Gnome lays its desktop above the root-window in its own borderless window. But conky is drawn directly to the root-window so the Gnome Desktop is always on top of it. The only workaround is to configure conky to run it its own window or not start the gnome-desktop executable.

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mxq

Member

Registered: 2007-07-12

Posts: 3

Re: Conky disappers when Gnome-Desktop starts

the sleep method works for me

nihonto

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Registered: 2007-08-29

Posts: 5

Re: Conky disappers when Gnome-Desktop starts

Yes, the sleep-method works for me, too. But only, if I put the command in my .xinitrc. If I write it into system -> preferences -> session, it doesn't work.

fwojciec

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Registered: 2007-05-20

Posts: 1,411

Re: Conky disappers when Gnome-Desktop starts

Write a little script that has sleep and conky in it, make it executable, and then run the script from the session settings.

nihonto

Member

Registered: 2007-08-29

Posts: 5

Re: Conky disappers when Gnome-Desktop starts

Thanks for the hint :-)! I'll give it a try.