12.04 and Conky

[czgirb]

I used Conky before and inactivate it for a long time ... I forget what I do in order to inactivate it. Now I wish to re-activate it again with the condition: there is .conkyrc file within my home folder. So, I press the gear symbol (upper far right) and select startup application and checked the box, which placed in front of conky ... restart the computer.
But nothing happen ... WHY ? Is there a thing that I forget ?

When I double click the conky, it said:
Name : conky
Command : conky -p 10

Please guide me

PS:
I used 12.04 and Compaq CQ40

[zombifier25]

The correct command:

conky -p 10 -c ~/conkyrc

Conky will pause for 10 seconds before starting the config file conkyrc in your home folder. Change the path to conkyrc if necessary.

[czgirb]

The correct command:

conky -p 10 -c ~/conkyrc

Conky will pause for 10 seconds before starting the config file conkyrc in your home folder. Change the path to conkyrc if necessary.

Restart and nothing happen

[ajgreeny]

The configuration file for conky in your home is more often called .conkyrc, ie a hidden file (note the point . at start of the name).

Double check your file's name and if it is .conkyrc, try that instead and see if it helps.

If there really is a file called .conkyrc in your home you do not even need to specify that file as it will be used by default.

Just to be sure what is going on can you show us the contents of your .conkyrc file.

[czgirb]

The configuration file for conky in your home is more often called .conkyrc, ie a hidden file (note the point . at start of the name).

Double check your file's name and if it is .conkyrc, try that instead and see if it helps.

If there really is a file called .conkyrc in your home you do not even need to specify that file as it will be used by default.

Just to be sure what is going on can you show us the contents of your .conkyrc file.

As requested

PS:
In order to upload the file, in ZIP's I delete the "point" before conky

[ajgreeny]

The only thing I can see missing in your .conkyrc file compared to mine is the x and y gap, and a mention of where on the screen it should appear.

# Text alignment, other possible values are commented
#alignment top_left
#alignment top_right
#alignment bottom_left
alignment bottom_right
#alignment none

# Gap between borders of screen and text
# same thing as passing -x at command line
gap_x 30
gap_y 40

This means my conky displays bottom right of the screen, 30 pixels from the right hand side of the screen and 40 pixels from the bottom, however, I do not see why that missing info should stop the display completely.

What happens if you us that command in terminal or the Alt+F2 run command box?

[czgirb]

The only thing I can see missing in your .conkyrc file compared to mine is the x and y gap, and a mention of where on the screen it should appear.

# Text alignment, other possible values are commented
#alignment top_left
#alignment top_right
#alignment bottom_left
alignment bottom_right
#alignment none

# Gap between borders of screen and text
# same thing as passing -x at command line
gap_x 30
gap_y 40

This means my conky displays bottom right of the screen, 30 pixels from the right hand side of the screen and 40 pixels from the bottom, however, I do not see why that missing info should stop the display completely.

What happens if you us that command in terminal or the Alt+F2 run command box?

SORRY ... I do not understand with what you mean
SORRY for my poor english or maybe I'm just a newbie to Ubuntu.
SORRY

[ajgreeny]

SORRY ... I do not understand with what you mean
SORRY for my poor english or maybe I'm just a newbie to Ubuntu.
SORRY

No need to apologise! I could not begin to write in whatever is your first language, and would not be able to understand anything you wrote either.
I meant that my .conkyrc file contains the text I show, which is all related to the position on screen of the conky window display.

If I completely remove those lines from my own file and start conky, the conky window still shows, but is not where I want it to be, and for some reason changes colour as well.

Finally, what happens if you use the command

conky -p 10 -c ~/.conkyrc

in a terminal; does conky start after the 10 second delay?

[czgirb]

No need to apologise! I could not begin to write in whatever is your first language, and would not be able to understand anything you wrote either.
I meant that my .conkyrc file contains the text I show, which is all related to the position on screen of the conky window display.

If I completely remove those lines from my own file and start conky, the conky window still shows, but is not where I want it to be, and for some reason changes colour as well.

Finally, what happens if you use the command

conky -p 10 -c ~/.conkyrc

in a terminal; does conky start after the 10 second delay?

Yup! You're RIGHT! The conky is RUN ... inside the terminal ... NOT on desktop.

[czgirb]

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