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contraversy
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PostPosted: Thu Nov 08, 2012 7:21 pm    Post subject: Running Conky in Background/at boot Reply with quote

Ok so I managed to get conky setup the way I wanted, but in all of my searching I didn't see how to have it run in the background, as this terminal window gets annoying and in the way.

Do I HAVE to set it up using screen to run in the bground?


*edit* I just ran conky -q and althought i had to Ctrl C out of it, conky continued to run this time..
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PostPosted: Sat Nov 10, 2012 9:45 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

i ususally run it with
Code:
conky &

(the backgrounding can be put into .conkyrc).
this way you can run it from an open terminal inside your wm/de, or you can use one of the "Run Command"-tools many of these have, or you can put it in the startup-config of your wm/de.
in my ~/.fluxbox/startup-file there is this line, and in xfce i have bound it to a keyboard-shortcut (since i do not always want to run it.
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PostPosted: Sat Nov 10, 2012 10:39 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

contraversy,

This is how I start mine:
Code:
#!/bin/bash
#
SCREEN=$(env | grep DISPLAY | cut -d: -f2)

if ! [[ $(ps -ef | grep "\-\-config=/home/bill/.conkyrc" ) ]]; then
   sleep 5s
   conky --window-id=$SCREEN --config=/home/bill/.conkyrc&
fi
exit $?

I use LXDE and call the script from ~/.config/lxsession/LXDE/autostart
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PostPosted: Sat Dec 01, 2012 6:49 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Hey thanks a lot! I just opened a terminal, ran it once and it kind of never went away after that, I appreciate all the help!
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