conky not starting automatically at startup XFCE, I3

[markmarques]

Hi,
after some of the latest updates I noticed that conky is not showing during the initial XFce update...
Although if I call it manually ( in the terminal shell) it work as expected ...

Already checked the XFCE Settings Manager - Session and Startup but with no sucess ...
How do I add it conky up to the XFCE startup again ?

I also noticed that several entries in the Startup and Session are disabled but I am not able to remove them (?) via the interface .
Where are those entries being populated ? how can I remove them ?

[ben2talk]

For conky - due to it's nature I find it better to have a script that gets run at startup:

#!/bin/bash
 if pgrep -x "conky"
    then killall conky
    else 
        conky -d -c ~/Admin/conky/network.conky
fi

And as it only runs 5 minutes, I can run that script with a shortcut any time I want to show/hide conky.

Run that script in your terminal and see what it reports... don't forget to edit the paths.

I don't know why some items are disabled as I'm using KDE, sorry about that... but I can't figure out why something you launch in terminal won't launch from startup.

[nikgnomic]

conky usually needs a delayed start to function correctly after system boot
and conky command has a time-delay option for that

-p, --pause=SECS pause for SECS seconds at startup before doing anything

suggest edit startup item for conky (~/.config/autostart/conky.desktop) to

Exec=/usr/bin/conky -p5

for a 5 second delay

system with HDD may need longer delay to start correctly
SSD system may be ok with shorter delay time

[anon27588196]

If you're using i3, why not call conky from there?

For me:

exec --no-startup-id /home/merell/.local/bin/start_conky

/home/merell/.local/bin/start_conky

#!/bin/bash

conky -c /home/merell/.config/conky/conky.conf &&
sleep 5
conky -c /home/merell/.config/conky/conky2.conf &&
sleep 5
conky -c /home/merell/.config/conky/conky3.conf &&

exit 0

[markmarques]

I tried some of the indicated ideas ( even installed conky-manager ) but I think my problem is not related to conky startup specific ....

by checking the ~/.config/autostart/ dir I have different entries from listed in the "XFCE Settings - Session Startup Menu" ...

In the "Session Startup" interface I have several entries which I do not need and unable to change or edit or delete ...
Where are those entries coming from ?
I though they were present as *.desktop files in the autostart dir ....