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aleron
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 Posted: Wed Oct 03, 2007 4:08 pm Post subject: delaying conky startup [solved] |
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I'm trying to run conky automatically when I start xwindows, but if I put it in my session profile (I'm using gnome), it gets started before the desktop background image is loaded. Unfortunately when this happens it's no longer visible, and I have to kill it and manually restart it. How can I run conky when I start xwindows, but with a delay?
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| Posted: Wed Oct 03, 2007 4:15 pm Post subject: |
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You could use something like `(sleep 2 && conky) &`, I remember using something like that before for the same thing.
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| Posted: Wed Oct 03, 2007 7:25 pm Post subject: |
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Awesome, thanks. 
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| Posted: Fri Oct 05, 2007 1:57 pm Post subject: |
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When I throw it in the session properties as the conky command, it doesn't start up (I'm assuming the && is throwing it off). Where else could I put the command other than gnome-session-properties?
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Nevermind, I just threw it in a sh script and gave the script as the command to gnome-session-properties and it works fine. 
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| Posted: Fri Oct 05, 2007 4:20 pm Post subject: |
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gnome-session-proporties provides you with the option to "priorities" starting apps
However... I dont' get my background being over-written???
what is yr conky file, you are probably missing an option (to be more gnome-friendy)
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| Posted: Wed Oct 10, 2007 12:06 pm Post subject: |
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Here are the relevant portions of my .conkrc file (I'm using gnome btw, which is why I have to have the options like this):
| Code: | own_window_transparent yes
own_window_type override
own_window yes
double_buffer yes |
Again, this is only an issue if conky starts before the desktop background gets loaded. If I manually start conky, or use a script with a delay like I am now so that it starts after the background is loaded, it's a non-issue. I'm sure this behavior is related to the fact that I'm using the transparent option, which causes conky to use the relevant portion of the desktop background as it's background (to simulate transparency). Maybe conky is getting a handle to a display resource for the background (or something akin to acquiring the desktop's HDC on a win32 system) which might not be valid after the background image gets loaded.
Either way, the problem is solved for me. Now if I could only find a conky developer so I can figure how to get the mouse click coordinate translation issue fixed.
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| Posted: Wed Oct 10, 2007 9:40 pm Post subject: |
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So what happens if you set the "own_window_type" to desktop?
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