Bug 370438

Summary:	Conky will not start using System Settings>Startup and Shutdown>Autostart
Product:	[Applications] systemsettings	Reporter:	David Brooke <david2012brooke>
Component:	kcm_autostart	Assignee:	Laurent Montel <montel>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	nate
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	5.8.0
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Gentoo Packages
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:	https://commits.kde.org/plasma-desktop/ccc8a09d859a6a63280e8a304483be3b51765d90	Version Fixed In:	5.20
Sentry Crash Report:

Description David Brooke 2016-10-11 02:22:59 UTC

Conky (version 1.10.x) will not start using System Settings>Startup and Shutdown>Autostart. After bootup is complete the conky doesn't display. Ksysguard (system monitor) is used to verify that conky is not running. Start conky using konsole by entering "conky" and the conky is properly displayed. Other services can be started using the "Autostart" method. There were no issues with starting conky using plasma 5.7.5.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Goto System Settings>Startup and Shutdown>Autostart>Add Program
2. Enter "conky" and select ok to complete entry
3. copy .conky file to ~/username
4. Reboot

Actual Results:  
Conky isn't displayed because conky service isn't started.

Expected Results:  
Conky is displayed upon bootup completion because the service was properly started.

The resulting failure was reproduced on the following:
Gentoo stable amd64
Plasma 5.8.0
KF5 5.27
Apps 16.08.1

Neon 5.8
Plasma 5.8.0
KF5 5.27
Apps 16.08.1

Comment 1 David Brooke 2016-10-31 20:57:37 UTC

The same issue is occurring on Arch Linux. Please reference the following url:
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=217920

Comment 2 David Brooke 2016-10-31 21:00:11 UTC

Now three different distro's have the same issue.

Comment 3 Nate Graham 2020-08-11 20:39:40 UTC

This is fixed in the rewrite which will be released in Plasma 5.20!