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Conky running in startup, but not showing

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Nick

I recently started using conky, and I'm trying to have it run on startup. To do this, I've used the Startup Application program to run a shell script that starts conky. If I run this script manually, it works fine and conky shows up. However, conky doesn't seem to show up on startup. I can tell that the script runs, as I can see conky running in the system monitor, but nothing appears on my desktop.

This is the .desktop file that was created:

[Desktop Entry]
Type=Application
Exec=/home/nick/start_conky
Hidden=false
NoDisplay=false
X-GNOME-Autostart-enabled=true
Name[en_CA]=Conky
Name=Conky
Comment[en_CA]=
Comment=

And my ubuntu version is 21.10 impish. Any help would be greatly appreciated

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norsei

Possibly conky is loading before the display is available, so it starts but never connects to the display. Try adding a --pause= argument to your conky call.

From man conky:

--
       -p | --pause= SECONDS
              Time to pause/wait before actually starting Conky.
--

I am also running 21.10 and ran into the same issue. Adding --pause=5 was enough of a delay to resolve the problem. Your timing may vary.

Edit:

I have another system with the same problem and this solution did not fix the problem. https://github.com/brndnmtthws/conky/issues/1087 suggests this is an issue with conky not waiting for Xwayland to load. I built the most recent version of conky and had the same issue.

As a quick-and-dirty workaround, I changed my startup to a script which calls conky, waits, and then forces conky to reload its configuration:

#!/bin/sh

/usr/bin/conky -d
sleep 5
killall -SIGUSR1 conky
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