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.

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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.