Thanks, Ralf! The conky.desktop file you listed above, from the XFCE section of https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Conky does indeed autostart conky under Gnome 3. I had no idea a that a config file for XFCE could be used with Gnome. I also found this skeleton ".desktop" file online (from a 2011 posting), that also works: [Desktop Entry] Type=Application Exec=/usr/bin/conky Hidden=false X-GNOME-Autostart-enabled=true Name[en_US]=conky Name=conky Comment[en_US]=conky Comment=conky I don't seem to need the lines from: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Conky#Integrate_with_Gnome_3, although I did need to add "double_buffer yes" to the ~/.conkrc file. Thanks again. On Sat, May 2, 2015 at 12:55 AM, Ralf Mardorf <ralf.mardorf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Fri, 1 May 2015 21:36:30 -0500, Francis Gerund wrote: > >So, do I need to create a "conky.desktop" file, and if so, how? > > "Add a ~/.config/autostart/conky.desktop: > > [Desktop Entry] > Encoding=UTF-8 > Version=0.9.4 > Type=Application > Name=conky > Comment= > Exec=conky -d > StartupNotify=false > Terminal=false > Hidden=false" - https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Conky > > "Integrate with Gnome 3 > > Some have experienced problems with conky showing up under Gnome 3. > > Add these lines to ~/.conkyrc: > > own_window yes > own_window_type conky > own_window_transparent yes > own_window_hints undecorated,below,sticky,skip_taskbar,skip_pager > > If you still experience problems with transparency. You could add these > lines. > > own_window_argb_visual yes > own_window_argb_value 255" - > https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Conky#Integrate_with_Gnome_3 > > This might not solve your issue. I'm neither a GNOME, nor a conky user. > $ pacman -Qi conky > error: package 'conky' was not found > > However, if you are used to GUIs and GNOME shouldn't provide GUIs were > you can add autostart.desktop files to ~/.config/autostart/ that aren't > listed, use the tool of another DE following freedesktop.org thingies, > e.g. xfce4-session-settings . >
