Goodbye Conky

[nero]

I have no use for Conky.   I favor a clean desktop, no icons or other distractions whatsoever.   How can I permanently be rid of it?

[brotherinbluejeans]

MENU>applications > settings > sessions and startup go to the "application autostart" tab and deselect conky.
next time you log in it will be gone.  now enter the command 'killall conky' (wihtout quotes) in your terminal.
 
(alternately; you could uninstall conky but it is such a miniscule application that this really no reason to do so...)

-enjoy

[Midnight]

First remove Conky from the Autostart menu, then do `killall conky' to prevent Xfwm4 from relaunching it at login as a part of the session.

[nero]

Thank you both for the advice.  It works perfectly on my personal desktop; however, it does not work for the root desktop.  There are identical settings on both desktops.  No big deal but I wonder why.   Thanks again.

PS--yes, I've tried starting and stopping conky a few times on the root desktop.  Not a one-time-try that I could have screwed up on.

[brotherinbluejeans]

you'll probably have better luck doing this manually..

open terminal and log in as root (root, not sudo for how we're going to do this.)

Code:

cd ~

now you are in root's home directory

Code:

rm .config/autostart/Conky.desktop

that just removed the autostart file so it won't start on session login.

now if you want you can go login as root and conky shouldn't be there.


p.s. i can't understand why you would login to a root desktop...  but i am sure you understand the dangers of doing so.

[Wolvrik]

it's all so violent and sad, ("killall conky").

[brotherinbluejeans]

t'wasn't for nothing that his name was nero

[nero]

Not quite so sinister actually.  The name Nero is the name of my black cat.  One of five.   Nero = black in Italian.

He is a very special "person" and I honor him, alive, by using his name and will continue to do so, in the after, as  tribute to him.  Other animal lovers will understand.

nero
_____

[brotherinbluejeans]

ah ok. makes sense.
i'm a dog person myself ... and if i ever make anything worth naming i plan to name it "libby" over my purebred yellow lab.

[Wolvrik]

I have a cat named Moony.  I like dogs (and wolves) too.