Conky Lands on top of Windows!!!

May 9th, 2009

I showed you how to install Conky, which is a free software system monitor for the X Window System in my last post. Some of us have experienced that if we add Conky to the Session/Start Application list, after booting Conky tends to appear on top of all windows. If you kill the Conky process and restart it, then the display is fine.

Now the solution to this is :
1. Open a terminal and type : gedit .startconky0
2. Paste this in it :

#!/bin/bash

sleep 35 &&
conky

3. Save and close
4. Type in the terminal : sudo chmod a+x .startconky0
5. In SYSTEM>PREFERENCES>SESSIONS/START APPLICATION
    Click +Add
    Name= Starting Conky
    Command=./.startconky0

Also remove conky from Session/Start Application list when you have added .startconky0

Now reboot, it should work then. :)

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Posted in Techi Gyaan | Comments (1)

One Response to “Conky Lands on top of Windows!!!”

  1. KrisBelucci Says:
    June 2nd, 2009 at 9:36 am

    Hi, cool post. I have been wondering about this topic,so thanks for writing.

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