Following the upgrade of xfce to xfce-base/xfce4-4.6.1, app-admin/conky-1.6.1 no longer autoloads when xfce opens. Downgrading to xfce-base/xfce4-4.4.3 restores autostart of app-admin/conky-1.6.1 Plain and simple, there's something wrong with the autostart feature of the xfce upgrade... Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Upgrade to app-admin/conky-1.6.1 borks autostart of Conky 2.Downgrade to xfce-base/xfce4-4.4.3 restores autostart of Conky 3.
Not starting conky directly at session start but from a small script (sleep 3 && conky -d) that starts conky after short delay works around this issue.
A proper fix is unknown at this time. Sorry.
Use sleep then.
(In reply to comment #1) > Not starting conky directly at session start but from a small script (sleep 3 > && conky -d) that starts conky after short delay works around this issue. > Hi ... could you tell me where you place this script with the new xfce 4.6. Thanks, Robert
(In reply to comment #4) > (In reply to comment #1) > > Not starting conky directly at session start but from a small script (sleep 3 > > && conky -d) that starts conky after short delay works around this issue. > > > > Hi ... could you tell me where you place this script with the new xfce 4.6. > > Thanks, > Robert > Create a small executable script that contains "sleep 3 && conky" or whatever command you use to start conky and place it wherever you want. Now fire up xfce4-session-settings and go to Application Autostart. There you can create an autostart entry which should execute your script at xfce startup.
(In reply to comment #5) > (In reply to comment #4) > > (In reply to comment #1) > > > Not starting conky directly at session start but from a small script (sleep 3 > > > && conky -d) that starts conky after short delay works around this issue. > > > > > > > Hi ... could you tell me where you place this script with the new xfce 4.6. > > > > Thanks, > > Robert > > > > Create a small executable script that contains "sleep 3 && conky" or whatever > command you use to start conky and place it wherever you want. Now fire up > xfce4-session-settings and go to Application Autostart. There you can create an > autostart entry which should execute your script at xfce startup. > Thanks ... worked great!