Configure LX desktop #2 (Solved, finally!)

[daniel]

Ok, removed conky.desktop from .config/autostart, added conky & to lxautostart.desktop:

[Desktop Entry]
Name=LXDE Autostart
Comment=Automatically start listed applications when LXDE starts.
Exec=/home/jan/.config/lxautostart/lxautostart.sh
Icon=/usr/share/icons/lxautostart.png
conky &
Terminal=false
Type=Application
Categories=Configuration

No joy, won't start..

Who sad, you should add conky in lxautostart.desktop?
Now will autostart no more working.
Copy'n'paste

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rm $HOME/.config/autostart/lxautostart.desktopClick yes
Start lxautostart...

Dug around in .config/lxautostart, there's a file called lxauto, which has the following:


# (en) Wait 10 seconds before starts up.
# (de) 10 Sekunden warten bis zum starten.
sleep 10
#
#wbar &
#parcellite &
#gkrellm &
#xbindkeys &
#conky &

Still no joy...

I don't have parcellite installed, I think I might install it and see if it runs...

remove # for conky and start again your session.

[Neal ManBear]

Jan,     
When a line is commented, i.e. it has a # at its start, it is ignored by bash and is not executed.     

[cstrike77]

Jan,     
When a line is commented, i.e. it has a # at its start, it is ignored by bash and is not executed.     

Ok, tried removing comments from lxauto and lxautostart.sh, still no joy, BUT all entries are commented.

Now, I installed parcellite, like I said it was not installed and configured it to work in lxautostart, it's sitting here humming along quite fine...

Here's the dumb question of the day.. Could it be because I installed conky BEFORE installing lxautostart, might this be the reason it's not working? I mean even tho it shows up in lxautostart, wondering if a uninstall and re-install might work?

Need to hit docs office and hear 'em gripe again abt me needing an inhaler, so it might be Monday b/4 I get to try this...

In the meantime, Merry Christmas to everybody.

jan

[daniel]

This is the default conf.file, and i've no idea, what the user like to start, so is all comments commented.

Is this description to bad formulated?

#LX-Autostart is a simple way to start your favorite
#applications automaticly, when LXDE starts up.
#======================================
# (en)Add entries here to set up applications to automatically
# start whenever you start the desktop.
# (de)Fügen Sie hier ihre Anwendungen ein, die Sie automatisch
# starten wollen, wenn die Arbeitsfläche startet.
#======================================
# (en)Add your program in a new line. As sample:
# (de)Geben Sie ein Programm in einer neuen Zeile ein. Als Beispiel:  
###################################
# wbar -pos top --above-desk &            
###################################
# (en)Don't forget the ampersand (&) sign.
# You can activate or stop an application with a "#".
# (de)Vergessen Sie nicht das Und (&) Zeichen.
# Sie können Anwendungen starten oder deaktivieren mit "#".
#======================================
# (en) Wait 10 seconds before starts up.
# (de) 10 Sekunden warten bis zum starten.

Thanks for supporting lxautostart...

[marcin82]

Another "preety" one

Thanks for supporting lxautostart...

Big thanks for LXAutostart ;]

[djohnston]

Another "preety" one

Nice desktop! Have you ever posted a screen shot in the Monthly Screenshots section?

[cstrike77]

I'm here, and stopped in first to see what anybody had thought of my idea, which I'm gonna try here in a few minutes.

But in looking at the old drive, I was correct, I was not using lxautostart to start anything. Which brings me to the question of why or how was conky working when installed on a full install, versus a mini install of openbox then installing task-lxde which is what I wanted in the first place...

Anybody have any thoughts?

TKS!

[weirdwolf]

Not sure I understand what you want, but in "/home/my name here/.config/autostart I have a conky.desktop file with

[Desktop Entry]
Name=conky
Exec=conky %u
Icon=none
Terminal=false
Type=Application
StartupWMClass=conky-bin
MimeType=text

inside it that I've used for sometime to autostart conky. I'm thinking this last install I used the lxauotstart to same effect.

[cstrike77]

Not sure I understand what you want, but in "/home/my name here/.config/autostart I have a conky.desktop file with

[Desktop Entry]
Name=conky
Exec=conky %u
Icon=none
Terminal=false
Type=Application
StartupWMClass=conky-bin
MimeType=text

inside it that I've used for sometime to autostart conky. I'm thinking this last install I used the lxauotstart to same effect.

Your file is a bit different than what I was using on the 2010 install on the old drive, might save it and try again. I got word from a cousin that I'm going to have a new(er) laptop sometime after new years, hopefully it lands here... I'd really like to look at KDE, but probably will stick with LXDE as I like it.

TKS wierdwolf!

[weirdwolf]

YW cstrike77