[SOLVED]: Disable Conky

[Member astronut]

I am booting into and using Icewm and would like to stop Conky from starting up when the desktop loads. I know how to toggle it off but I would like to keep it from running at startup and still beable to toggle it on if I choose to do so. I have changed the .desktop-session.conf file to “LOAD_CONKY=”false” and the /etc/skel/desktop-session/desktop-session.conf file to the same #LOAD_CONKY=”false” but conky still loads on desktop startup. Does anyone have any advice on how to disable conky startup without un-installing conky? Thanks!

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Hello,
Have you tried , It does the trick here for me:
conkytoggle.sh

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in file $HOME/.desktop-session/desktop-session.conf
line 67

#Session load conky
#This will load a window manager specific conky from ~/.conky
#There must be a corresponding conkyrc in ~/.conky in the form of windowmanager-conkyrc
#Else we will load conky without the -c parameter
#Options: true | false
LOAD_CONKY="false"

File is available also by Menu->ControlCentre->Session->UserDesktopSession

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🙂
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# set to yes if you want Conky to be forked in the background
background no

from $HOME/.conkyrc

Menu->ControlCentre->Desktop->EditSystemMonitor(conky)

[Member PPC]

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astronut wrote:

#LOAD_CONKY=”false”

Lines starting with # in config files and bash scripts are usually considered comments and ignored.
Also I think that files in “skel” are used only as default settings to generate config files, so altering files there probably won’t affect your system…

On my system, if I follow user_x’s suggestion, Conky is disabled when I start/restart my session…

P.

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PPC wrote:

Also I think that files in “skel” are used only as default settings to generate config files, so altering files there probably won’t affect your system…

Correct. /etc/skel is used to create /home/[user] directory and defaults for new users.

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[Member astronut]

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The files I changed, I changed to LOAD_CONKY=”false”. In otherwords, I uncommented them by removing the # at the beginning of the line, saved the file and the conky still starts at desktop loadup. Even in the Control Center desktop session files the line is uncommented and conky still starts. I even changed the line 4 to background no and saved it. Still the same result, conky starts at desktop loadup. How do I use or impliment “conkytoggle.sh”?

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Hum… I can’t replicate your problem, but I can tell you about conkytoggle.sh – it’s present in the Menu, at it merely toggles conky on/off for the current session:

Here are it’s contents:

#!/bin/bash
# Filename:      conkytoggleflux.sh
# Purpose:       toggle conky on/off from fluxbox menu
# Authors:       Kerry and anticapitalista, secipolla for antiX
# Latest change: Wed March 24, 2010.
################################################################################

if pidof conky | grep [0-9] > /dev/null
 then
  killall conky 
 else
  conky 
fi

I’m assuming there’s some strange problem with your system, that forces conky to start, even if disabled, like you said you did…
A workaround could be trying to place a “killall conky” command (or something similar) on your startup file, forcing conky to close, but I’m unsure that will work…

Let’s see what the experts say about your problem…

P.

[Forum Admin anticapitalista]

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Are you sure you haven’t added a conky startup elsewhere?

Post your $HOME/.desktop-session/desktop-session.conf

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[Member astronut]

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Here is the file anticapitalista asked for.

#This is the desktop-session config file.
#This is structured in a bash script format, so all options must be option=”desired-option

#Session service delay.
#This is to set how long to delay startup to give enough time for the wm to completely load.
#before starting to load other applications. This wait period will be started after the
#window manager has been found running.
#TIME is expressed in seconds
#Options: 0-9…
STARTUP_DELAY=”2″

#Session window manager check
#This is to set the amount of times desktop-session checks for a running window manager
#before giving up and denying the session to load.
#Options: 0-9…
TIMES_TO_CHECK=”20″

#Session give up override
#This is to set the override if the window manager is never found to be running by
#desktop-session. This will force the session to load if set to true.
#Options: true | false
FORCE_LOAD=”false”

#Session Protect.
#This is how to protect the user from automatic updating of any file within desktop-session.
#Examples are the menu, any file compare within file_compare, etc
#Options for this are:
#SESSION_PROTECT=”true #Strictly protect the user, leave the user to deal with any of the updating
#SESSION_PROTECT=”ask #Notify me at startup of any changes and allow me to choose what to update
#SESSION_PROTECT=”false #Just update me, I dont want to worry about falling behind.
SESSION_PROTECT=”false”

#Notification Dialog
#This is where to enable / disable the session loading dialog
#Options: true | false
NOTIFICATION_DIALOG=”false”

#Notification text or program
#This is where the text is set for the notification that the session is loading.
#This can be a specified text string or a program that will return a text string
#Examples:
#NOTIFICATION_TEXT=”Session is Loading, Please Wait…..”
#NOTIFICATION_TEXT=”/usr/games/fortune”
NOTIFICATION_TEXT=”Session is Loading, Please Wait…..”

#Startup Sound
#Play Sound when loading the desktop (uses terminal command play)
#Options: true | false
STARTUP_SOUND=”false”

#Startup Sound File
#Location of the file for the startup sound
STARTUP_SOUND_FILE=”$HOME/.desktop-session/startup.ogg”

#Startup Dialog
#This is where to enable / disable the session startup dialog
#Options: true | false
STARTUP_DIALOG=”false”

#Startup Dialog Command
#This is where to set the startup dialog command
#Examples:
#STARTUP_DIALOG_CMD=”leafpad ~/.startup-text”
#STARTUP_DIALOG_CMD=”yad –image=’info’ –text=’this is my startup dialog'”
#STARTUP_DIALOG_CMD=”/usr/local/lib/desktop-session/startup-dialog.py”

#Session load conky
#This will load a window manager specific conky from ~/.conky
#There must be a corresponding conkyrc in ~/.conky in the form of windowmanager-conkyrc
#Else we will load conky without the -c parameter
#Options: true | false
LOAD_CONKY=”false”

#Session load xdg autostart
#This will load any application that is setup to autostart via xdg autostart directories /
#.desktop files.
#Options: true | false
LOAD_XDG_AUTOSTART=”false”

#Session load of dbus-launch
#This will make it possible to start a session bus instance of dbus-daemon with the window manager
#Options: true | false
DBUS_SESSION_LAUNCH=”false”

#Session load startup
#This will load any application that is setup to autostart via /etc/desktop-session/startup
#Options: true | false
LOAD_STARTUP_FILE=”true”

#Session screen blank
#This is to set the amount of time that the screen stays visible.
#Desktop-session sets the dpms settings according to the screen blank value set here.
#TIME expressed in seconds
#Options: 0-9…
SCREEN_BLANK_TIME=”3600″

#Session other desktops window
#This is to set the other desktops window to pop up or not.
#true = pop up
#false = no pop up
OTHER_DESKTOPS_WINDOW=”true”

#Default Sound Level
#Set the sound volume level when starting up to default level when startup sound is true
#Set using amixer sset ‘Master’ -M
#Level is set from 0% – 100%
STARTUP_SOUND_LEVEL=”65%”

#Startup Dialog Command
#This is where to set the startup dialog command
#Examples:
#STARTUP_DIALOG_CMD=”leafpad ~/.startup-text
#STARTUP_DIALOG_CMD=”yad –image=’info’ –text=’this is my startup dialog'”
STARTUP_DIALOG_CMD=”/usr/local/lib/desktop-session/startup-dialog.py”

#Session load shutdown
#This will run desktop-session/shutdown on logout
#Options: true | false
LOAD_SHUTDOWN_FILE=”true”

#Session load conky
#This will load a window manager specific conky from ~/.conky
#There must be a corresponding conkyrc in ~/.conky in the form of windowmanager-conkyrc
#Else we will load conky without the -c parameter
#Options: true | false
LOAD_CONKY=”true”

Aha, I found the issue on line 126! Totally missed it as I stopped looking and editing the file at line 72. I changed that to false, saved the file and now it is not loading at startup of the desktop. Thanks for the help, I really appreciate!

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Try again

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I got it figured out, see my above post. Thanks all!

I dont know how to mark this thread solved so if someone could do it for me, I would appreciate it!

• This reply was modified 6 months ago by astronut.
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