Speaking of startup applications, is there a way to make Conky run at startup?
I use a small shell script with 30-seconds delay (90-seconds on a slow machine) to start Conky...
Filename: conky-autostart-30sec-delay.sh
Path: /home/<your username>/.config/autostart/conky-autostart-30sec-delay.sh
#!/bin/sh
sleep 30
display=:0.0 conky
Filename: conky-autostart.desktop
Path: /home/<your username>/.config/autostart/conky-autostart.desktop
[Desktop Entry]
Name=Conky Autostart
Comment=Run Conky delay script
Exec=/home/<your username>/.config/autostart/conky-autostart-30sec-delay.sh
Terminal=false
Enable at startup using the instructions above. Tick the entry called "Conky Autostart".
There are other ways of doing this (combining the shell script + desktop config file, for instance) but that's the method that works best for me, i.e. for the way I do things, e.g. I like to over-engineer everything. ;D