cant autostart conky with xfce 4.6

[Roger Durañona Vargas]

After upgrading to 4.6.1 I found that I cant autostart conky. It works
if I run it manually, but if I place it in autostart it simply never
shows.  Any idea about whta is wrong here?

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[Bo Thide']

Hello,

I just upgraded my Xubuntu to 9.10 but still miss the possibility of
having  NetworkManager installed  in my bottom panel so I can remove
the top panel to save some display real estate.

How do I go about to achieve this?  I have tried to use XfApplet but
have failed so far...

Bo
PS. The 9.10 is quite OK.  Some improvement over 9.04, but still
not quite what I expected.

In your e-mail of Sun Nov  1 14:16:41 2009 you wrote:

>
> After upgrading to 4.6.1 I found that I cant autostart conky. It works
> if I run it manually, but if I place it in autostart it simply never
> shows.  Any idea about whta is wrong here?
>
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[Yves-Alexis Perez-2]

On dim., 2009-11-01 at 08:16 -0500, Roger Durañona Vargas wrote:
> After upgrading to 4.6.1 I found that I cant autostart conky. It works
> if I run it manually, but if I place it in autostart it simply never
> shows.  Any idea about whta is wrong here?

Try looking at .xsession-errors to see if there's a problem outputed by
conky?

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[Yves-Alexis Perez-2]

On dim., 2009-11-01 at 15:36 +0100, Bo Thide' wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I just upgraded my Xubuntu to 9.10 but still miss the possibility of
> having  NetworkManager installed  in my bottom panel so I can remove
> the top panel to save some display real estate.
>
> How do I go about to achieve this?  I have tried to use XfApplet but
> have failed so far...
>
> Bo
> PS. The 9.10 is quite OK.  Some improvement over 9.04, but still
> not quite what I expected.

Please don't hijack threads (that's considered rude). And
network-manager has nothing to do with Xfce, so your question might be
better suited for a xubuntu-user list, imho.

Though, in your case, I guess it's totaly unrelated to NM, you just need
to move the notification area from the top panel to the bottom one. Just
remove it from the top, and then add it to the bottom (it'll be called
“system tray” or “notification area”, maybe translated.

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[Masato Hashimoto]

On Sun, 01 Nov 2009 08:16:41 -0500
Roger Durañona Vargas <luo_hei@...> wrote:

> After upgrading to 4.6.1 I found that I cant autostart conky. It works
> if I run it manually, but if I place it in autostart it simply never
> shows.  Any idea about whta is wrong here?

If there is no error, try to delay start of conky.
That is, make a shell script such as "sleep 10 ; conky" and add it to autostart.

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[Bo Thide']

Hi Yves-Alexis,

Sorry, I didn't realise that I was 'hijacking' anything.  Just wanted
to pose a question to the xfce mailing list and thought I did the
right thing ...

The question I have is about how to set up NM in xfce, not about NM
itself.  Since I prefer a single panel at the bottom of my screen (a
panel that in xfce land apparently is called a "system tray" or a
"notification area", and in our somewhat colloquial parlance is
referred to as a "dash board") and get rid of the panel at the top
of the screen (the default "panel 1" in xfce).  If I remove that
panel, I also remove the NM icon and functionality and am no longer
able to connect to Internet.

You say:
 Though, in your case, I guess it's totaly unrelated to NM, you just need
 to move the notification area from the top panel to the bottom one. Just
 remove it from the top, and then add it to the bottom (it'll be called
 =E2=80=9Csystem tray=E2=80=9D or =E2=80=9Cnotification area=E2=80=9D, maybe

It is precisely this I have tried several times without succeeding.
Nowhere have I found a description on how to do it and my own attempts
have sometimes led to disastrous results.  So if you know of any
point-to-point description of exactly how to go about to make this
move, I would be extremely happy.

Once again sorry for my ignorance in this particular area of xfce.  It's
just that I feel rather uncomfortable how to set up xfce and do not like
neither gnome nor kde.  On the whole, though, I think I am reasonably
computer literate (advanced UNIX applications and system programming for
25+ years under my belt, inclduding being one of the official
contributors to X11 :-)

Best regards,

Bo


In your e-mail of Sun Nov  1 15:57:57 2009 you wrote:

>
>
> On dim., 2009-11-01 at 15:36 +0100, Bo Thide' wrote:
> > Hello,
> >=20
> > I just upgraded my Xubuntu to 9.10 but still miss the possibility of
> > having  NetworkManager installed  in my bottom panel so I can remove
> > the top panel to save some display real estate.
> >=20
> > How do I go about to achieve this?  I have tried to use XfApplet but
> > have failed so far...
> >=20
> > Bo
> > PS. The 9.10 is quite OK.  Some improvement over 9.04, but still
> > not quite what I expected.
>
> Please don't hijack threads (that's considered rude). And
> network-manager has nothing to do with Xfce, so your question might be
> better suited for a xubuntu-user list, imho.
>
> Though, in your case, I guess it's totaly unrelated to NM, you just need
> to move the notification area from the top panel to the bottom one. Just
> remove it from the top, and then add it to the bottom (it'll be called
> =E2=80=9Csystem tray=E2=80=9D or =E2=80=9Cnotification area=E2=80=9D, maybe
>  translated.
>
> HTH,
>
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[Steve Dodier-2]

2009/11/1 Bo Thide' <bt@...>

Hi Yves-Alexis,

Sorry, I didn't realise that I was 'hijacking' anything.  Just wanted
to pose a question to the xfce mailing list and thought I did the
right thing ...

The question I have is about how to set up NM in xfce, not about NM
itself.  Since I prefer a single panel at the bottom of my screen (a
panel that in xfce land apparently is called a "system tray" or a
"notification area", and in our somewhat colloquial parlance is
referred to as a "dash board") and get rid of the panel at the top
of the screen (the default "panel 1" in xfce).  If I remove that
panel, I also remove the NM icon and functionality and am no longer
able to connect to Internet.

You say:

 Though, in your case, I guess it's totaly unrelated to NM, you just need
 to move the notification area from the top panel to the bottom one. Just
 remove it from the top, and then add it to the bottom (it'll be called

 =E2=80=9Csystem tray=E2=80=9D or =E2=80=9Cnotification area=E2=80=9D, maybe

It is precisely this I have tried several times without succeeding.
Nowhere have I found a description on how to do it and my own attempts
have sometimes led to disastrous results.  So if you know of any
point-to-point description of exactly how to go about to make this
move, I would be extremely happy.

Once again sorry for my ignorance in this particular area of xfce.  It's
just that I feel rather uncomfortable how to set up xfce and do not like
neither gnome nor kde.  On the whole, though, I think I am reasonably
computer literate (advanced UNIX applications and system programming for
25+ years under my belt, inclduding being one of the official
contributors to X11 :-)

Best regards,

Bo

 

Hello Bo,

You need to right click on your bottom panel, click on "Add New Items...", and then select the "Notification Area" item in the list, and click on "Add".

I've uploaded a screenshot showing the item in the list, so you can recognise it in your locale: http://imagebin.ca/img/zSX-gle.png

Also, it is more appropriate to use the Xubuntu IRC channel or mailing list for Xubuntu related questions. You can find different support methods at http://www.xubuntu.com/help. It will avoid questions that could be offtopic, or Xubuntu specific, and it will help Xubuntu support teams know what users are having trouble with.

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[Yves-Alexis Perez-2]

On dim., 2009-11-01 at 17:29 +0100, Bo Thide' wrote:
> Hi Yves-Alexis,
>
> Sorry, I didn't realise that I was 'hijacking' anything.  Just wanted
> to pose a question to the xfce mailing list and thought I did the
> right thing ...

Well, it seems you replied to a previous thread instead of posting
directly to the list.
>
> The question I have is about how to set up NM in xfce, not about NM
> itself.

No, in fact it has nothing to do with network-manager. Believe me.

>   Since I prefer a single panel at the bottom of my screen (a
> panel that in xfce land apparently is called a "system tray" or a
> "notification area", and in our somewhat colloquial parlance is
> referred to as a "dash board")

Sorry, there's a qui-proquo here. The whole bar is indeed a panel. One
of the component of that panel is the notification area, where the NM
icon appears.

>  and get rid of the panel at the top
> of the screen (the default "panel 1" in xfce).  If I remove that
> panel, I also remove the NM icon and functionality and am no longer
> able to connect to Internet.

That's why I said that you just have to add back the notification area
to the bottom panel (right click, add plugin, notification area).

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