Delay autostart of programs such as conky and dropbox, in Kubuntu

I'll share my autostart on 19.10 for conky and on 18.04 for Dropbox.

Autostarting conky in 19.10:

I opened System Settings > Startup and Shutdown > Autostart

• In there, I clicked on Add Program ...
• A window titled "Choose Application -- System Settings" appeared
• I clicked on Terminal options but did not tick Run in terminal
• In the text box above, I entered conky --pause=60¹ and then clicked OK
• A new window appeared indicating that the system would create a desktop configuration file titled conky.desktop for me in /home/dkb/.config/autostart. I clicked OK.
• I was taken back to the original Autostart screen where I could see, under Desktop File an entry for conky.

Autostart for conky

¹ A more elaborate command could be one in which you specify the particular conky configuration file you wish to load. So, conky --pause=60 -c $HOME/.config/conky/clock.conf would start conky with clock.conf instead of any other configuration file. Using conky --pause=nn -c $HOME/path/to/another/conky.conf would allow you have more than one conky active: you'll be specifying the delay (in seconds with nn) and the path to the relevant conky configuration file with -c ...

(The other entry is for Latte Dock and that was created by the latte-dock application itself.)

In the case of Dropbox in Kubuntu 18.04, I took another route.

I keep all my local executable scripts in ~/bin. The relevant one is dropbox.sh with the following content:

#!/bin/bash

sleep 60s && cd /home/dkb/.dropbox-dist/ && ./dropboxd

So I went through the same process again, but, instead of choosing Add Program, I chose Add script and pointed to dropbox.sh. This time, on completion, the entry was not under Desktop File but under Script File.