Hi,

I' cant understand why I'm not able to let conky start in background mode:

at startup my Conky starts all times in foreground (it's windows show-up over other windows).

To put the Conky window in background, as I'd like it to stay, I have to do the following steps:

1) kill the Conky active process
2) re-launch Conky with the Terminal, simply typing Conky at the command line.
After those steps, Conky remain in background as needed.


This is my .conkyrc file:
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# Gap between borders of screen and text
# same thing as passing -x at command line
gap_x 35
gap_y 150

# Subtract file system buffers from used memory?
no_buffers yes

# set to yes if you want all text to be in uppercase
uppercase no

# number of cpu samples to average
# set to 1 to disable averaging
cpu_avg_samples 2

# number of net samples to average
# set to 1 to disable averaging
net_avg_samples 2

# Force UTF8? note that UTF8 support required XFT
override_utf8_locale yes

# Add spaces to keep things from moving about? This only affects certain objects.
use_spacer none

TEXT
SISTEMA ${hr 2}
${voffset 2}${font OpenLogos:size=16}u${font} Kernel: ${alignr}${kernel}
${font StyleBats:size=16}A${font} CPU1: ${cpu cpu1}% ${alignr}${cpubar cpu1 8,60}
${font StyleBats:size=16}A${font} CPU2: ${cpu cpu2}% ${alignr}${cpubar cpu2 8,60}
${font StyleBats:size=16}g${font} RAM: $memperc% ${alignr}${membar 8,60}
${font StyleBats:size=16}j${font} SWAP: $swapperc% ${alignr}${swapbar 8,60}
${font StyleBats:size=16}q${font} Uptime: ${alignr}${uptime}

DATA ${hr 2}
${alignc 35}${font Arial Black:size=26}${time %H:%M}${font}
${alignc}${time %A %d %Y}

HD ${hr 2}
${voffset 4}${font Pie charts for maps:size=14}7${font} ${voffset -5}Root:
${voffset 4}${fs_used /}/${fs_size /} ${alignr}${fs_bar 8,60 /}
${font Pie charts for maps:size=14}7${font} ${voffset -5}Home:
${voffset 4}${fs_free /home}/${fs_size /home} ${alignr}${fs_bar 8,60 /home}

NETWORK ${hr 2}
${if_existing /proc/net/route wlan0}
${voffset -6}${font PizzaDude Bullets:size=14}O${font} Up: ${upspeed wlan0} kb/s ${alignr}${upspeedgraph wlan0 8,60 F57900 FCAF3E}
${voffset 4}${font PizzaDude Bullets:size=14}U${font} Down: ${downspeed wlan0} kb/s ${alignr}${downspeedgraph wlan0 8,60 F57900 FCAF3E}
${voffset 4}${font PizzaDude Bullets:size=14}N${font} Upload: ${alignr}${totalup wlan0}
${voffset 4}${font PizzaDude Bullets:size=14}T${font} Download: ${alignr}${totaldown wlan0}
${voffset 4}${font PizzaDude Bullets:size=14}Z${font} Signal: ${wireless_link_qual wlan0}% ${alignr}${wireless_link_bar 8,60 wlan0}
${voffset 4}${font PizzaDude Bullets:size=14}a${font} Ip Locale: ${alignr}${addr wlan0}
${voffset 4}${font PizzaDude Bullets:size=14}b${font} Ip Pubblico: ${alignr}${execi 1 ~/.scripts/ip.sh}
${else}${if_existing /proc/net/route eth0}
${voffset -6}${font PizzaDude Bullets:size=14}O${font} Up: ${upspeed eth0} kb/s ${alignr}${upspeedgraph eth0 8,60 F57900 FCAF3E}
${voffset 4}${font PizzaDude Bullets:size=14}U${font} Down: ${downspeed eth0} kb/s ${alignr}${downspeedgraph eth0 8,60 F57900 FCAF3E}
${voffset 4}${font PizzaDude Bullets:size=14}N${font} Upload: ${alignr}${totalup eth0}
${voffset 4}${font PizzaDude Bullets:size=14}T${font} Download: ${alignr}${totaldown eth0}
${voffset 4}${font PizzaDude Bullets:size=14}a${font} Ip Locale: ${alignr}${addr eth0}
${voffset 4}${font PizzaDude Bullets:size=14}b${font} Ip Pubblico: ${alignr}${execi 1 ~/.scripts/ip.sh}
${endif}${else}${if_existing /proc/net/route eth1}
${voffset -6}${font PizzaDude Bullets:size=14}O${font} Up: ${upspeed eth1} kb/s ${alignr}${upspeedgraph eth1 8,60 F57900 FCAF3E}
${voffset 4}${font PizzaDude Bullets:size=14}U${font} Down: ${downspeed eth1} kb/s ${alignr}${downspeedgraph eth1 8,60 F57900 FCAF3E}
${voffset 4}${font PizzaDude Bullets:size=14}N${font} Upload: ${alignr}${totalup eth1}
${voffset 4}${font PizzaDude Bullets:size=14}T${font} Download: ${alignr}${totaldown eth1}
${voffset 4}${font PizzaDude Bullets:size=14}a${font} Ip Locale: ${alignr}${addr eth1}
${voffset 4}${font PizzaDude Bullets:size=14}b${font} Ip Pubblico: ${alignr}${execi 1 ~/.scripts/ip.sh}
${endif}${else}
${font PizzaDude Bullets:size=14}4${font} Rete Non Disponibile
${endif}


Many thanks
Alex

You have to add to your conkyrc file the following line:

that will fork Conky to the background.

Nothing to do :-( , I just added

into the ".conkyrc" but i didn't solve my problem: conky continue to appear over any other desktop window in "foreground" (es: if I launch Firefox, conky appear over the firefox window)

The very strange think is: Conky launched by a simple "conky" command, as a startup program in "Sessions manager" appear in foreground, then, if I kill "Conky" just after the boot, and I re-launch it exactly in the same way (just typing "conky" in terminal) Conky starts in background as I need.

every suggestion is welcome!

Bye

I think your problem is similar (if not equal) to this one:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1049693

Try the solutions presented on the replies. At least for the guy/girl that posted that it worked, but I don't know if it's the same problem.