Bug 275541

Summary:	xfce-base/xfce4-4.6.1 broken autoload of Conky
Product:	Gentoo Infrastructure	Reporter:	charles gruenwald <cgjrmd>
Component:	Bugzilla	Assignee:	XFCE Team <xfce>
Status:	RESOLVED UPSTREAM
Severity:	normal	CC:	billie
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	x86
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description charles gruenwald 2009-06-26 21:05:51 UTC

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.

Comment 1 Daniel Pielmeier gentoo-dev

2009-06-26 21:30:49 UTC

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.

Comment 2 Jeremy Olexa (darkside) (RETIRED) archtester

2009-07-16 04:19:13 UTC

A proper fix is unknown at this time. Sorry.

Comment 3 Samuli Suominen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2009-08-25 10:54:07 UTC

Use sleep then.

Comment 4 Robert Spencer 2009-09-08 22:19:25 UTC

(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

Comment 5 Daniel Pielmeier gentoo-dev

2009-09-08 23:02:49 UTC

(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.

Comment 6 Robert Spencer 2009-09-08 23:11:40 UTC

(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!