Trouble with Conky after upgrade to Fedora 41

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I have been using Conky on Fedora for quite some years but after migrating, by a complete clean install, I cannot get Conky to start correctly in my Gnome session at startup.

I have used gnome-tweaks to add Conky as a start up application and that does happen

 trevor  ~  ps -ef |grep conky                                                                                                       
trevor     13563   10559  2 15:50 ?        00:00:06 /usr/bin/conky --daemonize --pause=7
trevor     14272   14184  0 15:55 pts/0    00:00:00 grep --color=auto conky
 trevor  ~ 

But the window does not show. As you can see from above, it is starting with -pause=7 which should allow the desktop to be up before anything happens. This worked perfectly on F40.

If I kill Conky and restart it from the command prompt, alt-F2, it displays correctly.

Pre-empting the obvious question. I was using Wayland with F40.

2

Under kde plasma I would be using a systemd user service to start conky that is ordered (after=) to only start once the desktop is working.

My guess would be you can do the same for gnome. But I am not a gnome user.

3

Hi.
I have exactly the same issue.
Could you solve it?

4

See my reply.How are you starting conky?

5

I use a service to run a bash script. But the conky window doesn’t appear. I use GNOME
But the process is there:

ps -ef | grep conky
user     4542       1  0 14:58 ?        00:00:00 /bin/bash /home/user/.conkystart.sh
user     4552    3647  0 14:58 pts/0    00:00:00 grep --color=auto conky

Bash:

#!/bin/bash
sleep 20 &&
conky -c "/home/user/.conky/Kurhah-MpdC-v2.4/Kurhah/Kurhah.conf"

Service:

[Unit]
Description=Iniciar Conky al arrancar
After=multi-user.target  
[Service]
ExecStart=/home/user/.conkystart.sh
Environment="DISPLAY=:0"
Environment="XAUTHORITY=/home/user/.Xauthority"
Restart=always
User=user
Group=user

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

Thanks for you help!

6

That target is only useful for system services.
I assume you are running this as a user service.
You will need to set it up to be after one of the desktop’s user targets.

7

I tried with After=default.target and After=graphics.target and I couldn’t make it work.
Any ideas?
Sorry about it, I’m not familiar with services.

8

I created a test service to see what was required.
I’m testing on f42 kde plasma.

$ systemctl --user cat test.service 
# /home/barry/.config/systemd/user/test.service
[Unit]
Description=testing user services
After=graphical-session.target

[Service]
Type=oneshot
ExecStart=timedatectl

[Install]
WantedBy=graphical-session.target

$ systemctl --user enable test.service

When I boot up and log in the service runs.

$ systemctl --user status test.service
○ test.service - testing user services
     Loaded: loaded (/home/barry/.config/systemd/user/test.service; enabled; preset: disabled)
    Drop-In: /usr/lib/systemd/user/service.d
             └─10-timeout-abort.conf
     Active: inactive (dead) since Wed 2025-04-23 18:26:33 BST; 1min 39s ago
 Invocation: ad9a48cc0ecc4878a7bdd1b3005d5002
    Process: 2253 ExecStart=timedatectl (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
   Main PID: 2253 (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
   Mem peak: 1.2M
        CPU: 3ms

Apr 23 18:26:33 armf42.internal systemd[1318]: Starting test.service - testing user services...
Apr 23 18:26:33 armf42.internal timedatectl[2253]:                Local time: Wed 2025-04-23 18:26:33 BST
Apr 23 18:26:33 armf42.internal timedatectl[2253]:            Universal time: Wed 2025-04-23 17:26:33 UTC
Apr 23 18:26:33 armf42.internal timedatectl[2253]:                  RTC time: Wed 2025-04-23 17:26:33
Apr 23 18:26:33 armf42.internal timedatectl[2253]:                 Time zone: Europe/London (BST, +0100)
Apr 23 18:26:33 armf42.internal timedatectl[2253]: System clock synchronized: no
Apr 23 18:26:33 armf42.internal timedatectl[2253]:               NTP service: inactive
Apr 23 18:26:33 armf42.internal timedatectl[2253]:           RTC in local TZ: no
Apr 23 18:26:33 armf42.internal systemd[1318]: Finished test.service - testing user services.