Conky disappears after start up

[navneeth]

After the Ubuntu splash* appears, I get a plain Ubuntu light-brown background(similar to the one in the picture). The wallpaper takes sometime to come on; but before it does, the bottom panel, the terminal and conky show up. But as soon as the wp comes up, conky disappears. But it still shows up under the Processes tab in the System Monitor. How do I make sure that conky doesn't disappear?

Thanks for any help.




*http://www.guia-ubuntu.org/images/thumb/4/43/Ubuntu-splash.jpg/180px-Ubuntu-splash.jpg

[happy-and-lost]

Conky is launched before Nautilus, so the wallpaper is covering it. Launch Conky from a sleeping script to get around that problem. Like this:

nano .conkylaunch
Into that file paste:

#!/bin/bash
sleep 10 &&
conky &
exit

Then chmod +x .conkylaunch

And add this script to the startup.

If the problem persists, change the sleep value unil you've given Nautilus enough time to load.

[navneeth]

Thank you. 20 works fine for me. :)

[dannymichel]

Conky is launched before Nautilus, so the wallpaper is covering it. Launch Conky from a sleeping script to get around that problem. Like this:

nano .conkylaunch
Into that file paste:

#!/bin/bash
sleep 10 &&
conky &
exit

Then chmod +x .conkylaunch

And add this script to the startup.

If the problem persists, change the sleep value unil you've given Nautilus enough time to load.
Open the terminal, copy and paste nano .conkylaunch then enter?
then copy and paste#!/bin/bash
sleep 10 &&
conky &
exitinto that weird window that appears?
That weird window doesn't allow me to save.

Ho wdo I CHMOD after I figure out what is going on

[nickless]

you don't have to use nano. Use your favorite text editor, like gedit:
gedit .conkylaunch

after pasting the script just type in your terminal:
chmod +x .conkylaunch
and hit enter. That makes the file executeable.

To start the script you will have to type:
sh /home/YOURUSERNAME/.conkylaunch
This is also the code you should add to your session dialog, to let conky start at your startup.

[S.Peterman]

Just wanted to say thanks, this is exactly what I needed to get conky working properly.

[daniel_szollosi-nagy]

This post came up as the first result in Google for "conky disappears" - fixed my problem right off the bat. Thanks for the info guys!

[wormser]

This resolved my problem. I used 20.