Conky on Startup
 

I just installed conky. What is the best way to get it to start when X loads? I am using KDE.

you should have an Autostart file in .kde or .kde4 add something like
to that file.

Just put a softlink to conky in the 'Autostart' directory within .kde directory in your home directory.

on my system, it's:

to make a softlink use ln. the basic syntax for ln is:

so if you are in the .kde/Autostart directory, for conky the command would be:

See the man-page for ln for details. As brett's code suggests, it's probably a good idea to put a short delay (sleep 5) in there so kde can finish starting up before conky loads. To do that, put brett's code into a text file, name it something like 'conky_load.sh', make it exectuable and save it where you save your scripts.

to make the script exectuable, use the chmod command:

On my machine, I save scripts in /opt/scripts. So, from within the .kde/Autostart directory, the code to make the softlink would then be:

Hope this helps.

Thanks people, both of the suggestions were great. I appreciate your help.