Configure LX desktop #2 (Solved, finally!)

[Neal ManBear]

LXAutostart is working fine here.     

Honest Neal, I don't even think I was using lxautostart on the other drive. Because on this one I have a file called lxautostart and on the crashed drive I don't. Go figure...

I copied my conky.desktop file from the crashed drive to a flash, then back to the new drive here and figured it wouldwork....

jan

     
Did you install the conky package? A .desktop file provides the menu entry, not the application. When you install a package, a .desktop file is installed, too, unless you are installing a command line tool.      
As for lxautostart, try a remove - reboot - install. Maybe that will do what is needed. It can't hurt to try.     

[cstrike77]

LXAutostart is working fine here.     

Honest Neal, I don't even think I was using lxautostart on the other drive. Because on this one I have a file called lxautostart and on the crashed drive I don't. Go figure...

I copied my conky.desktop file from the crashed drive to a flash, then back to the new drive here and figured it wouldwork....

jan

     
Did you install the conky package? A .desktop file provides the menu entry, not the application. When you install a package, a .desktop file is installed, too, unless you are installing a command line tool.      
As for lxautostart, try a remove - reboot - install. Maybe that will do what is needed. It can't hurt to try.     

Yep, installed conky, and in terminal or click on run type conky and it starts.. Have no idea, I'll do a remove, reboot and reinstall and let you know. But it might be tomorrow as I have to go to doctors today...

TKS

[cstrike77]

LXAutostart is working fine here.     

Honest Neal, I don't even think I was using lxautostart on the other drive. Because on this one I have a file called lxautostart and on the crashed drive I don't. Go figure...

I copied my conky.desktop file from the crashed drive to a flash, then back to the new drive here and figured it wouldwork....

jan

I'm not sure, how you will use lxautostart, so i lost here, sorry 

We were trying to figure out why conky was not autostarting..

Jan

[Neal ManBear]

Copy and paste /usr/share/applications/conky.desktop to /home/cstrike77/.config/autostart. Log out/in.    

[marcin82]

Show from console:

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cat ~/.config/lxautostart/lxautostart.sh
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If at the end of this file there is no command like this:

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conky &run from console command like this:

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echo "conky &" >> ~/.config/lxautostart/lxautostart.shLogout and log into your account to LXDE.

[cstrike77]

LXAutostart is working fine here.     

Honest Neal, I don't even think I was using lxautostart on the other drive. Because on this one I have a file called lxautostart and on the crashed drive I don't. Go figure...

I copied my conky.desktop file from the crashed drive to a flash, then back to the new drive here and figured it wouldwork....

jan

     
Did you install the conky package? A .desktop file provides the menu entry, not the application. When you install a package, a .desktop file is installed, too, unless you are installing a command line tool.      
As for lxautostart, try a remove - reboot - install. Maybe that will do what is needed. It can't hurt to try.     

Tried it, no luck, still don't work.

[cstrike77]

Copy and paste /usr/share/applications/conky.desktop to /home/cstrike77/.config/autostart. Log out/in.    

There is no conky.desktop file in /usr/share/

[cstrike77]

Show from console:

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cat ~/.config/lxautostart/lxautostart.sh
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If at the end of this file there is no command like this:

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conky &run from console command like this:

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echo "conky &" >> ~/.config/lxautostart/lxautostart.shLogout and log into your account to LXDE.

Tried that, still no joy, conky won't start

[Neal ManBear]

Copy and paste /usr/share/conky.desktop to /home/cstrike77/.config/autostart. Log out/in.     

There is no conky.desktop file in /usr/share/

   
/usr/share/applications    

[daniel]

When ever you start lxautostart you get this window (or not)



Click on Available Starter, you get this



Click on add starter, when you found your starter from list. You will ask if you sure to set on autostart. Click on yes, thats all.

So where is the problem?

Try in your terminal

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find /usr/share/applications -name conky.*What is the output?

Try in terminal

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rpm -qa | grep conkyWhat is the output?

[cstrike77]

Copy and paste /usr/share/conky.desktop to /home/cstrike77/.config/autostart. Log out/in.     

There is no conky.desktop file in /usr/share/

 

  
/usr/share/applications    

There is no conky.desktop in /user/share/applications, only application icons that are installed, abiword, bleachbit, chbg ECT.

[cstrike77]

When ever you start lxautostart you get this window (or not)



Click on Available Starter, you get this



Click on add starter, when you found your starter from list. You will ask if you sure to set on autostart. Click on yes, thats all.

So where is the problem?

Try in your terminal

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find /usr/share/applications -name conky.*What is the output?

Try in terminal

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rpm -qa | grep conkyWhat is the output?

Here's what I get:

[jan@localhost ~]$ find /usr/share/applications -name conky.*

returns empty.

[jan@localhost ~]$ rpm -qa | grep conky
conky-1.8.1-1pclos2010
[jan@localhost ~]$

When starting lxautostart, I get the same as you, with an entry for conky.

TKS!

[daniel]

Output from

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cat ~/.config/autostart/conky.desktopThanks

[Neal ManBear]

Copy and paste /usr/share/conky.desktop to /home/cstrike77/.config/autostart. Log out/in.     

There is no conky.desktop file in /usr/share/

 

  
/usr/share/applications    

There is no conky.desktop in /user/share/applications, only application icons that are installed, abiword, bleachbit, chbg ECT.

     
  Right click any of those icons > choose to open with leafpad > look at the top of leafpad - you will see the name + the .desktop extension.

[daniel]

Output from

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cat ~/.config/autostart/conky.desktopThanks

or try in terminal

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conky
What is the messages?