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Curious Apprentice
Asked: 2013-03-29 12:59:52 +0800 CST

How do I restart conky and nautilus whenever they crash?

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Many times nautilus crashes because of various reasons. When nautilus crash, it crashes with conky. The only way to get back conky and active desktop is to start nautilus and conky from terminal.

How can I make nautilus and conky re-start automatically whenever a crash occurs ?

Some peoples are advising to use Upstart. But the upstart cook-book is too heavy for me, as Im a Windows user and Im not accustomed of cli/.conf things.

If anyone can give me exactly what I need to change then it would be a great help. In the mean while I will do try to figure out how to make things work using upstart daemon.

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1 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    Create a file in /etc/init with the following commands:

    #!upstart
description "Conky"

# Start job via the daemon control script. Replace "soham" with your username.
exec su -l soham -c 'export DISPLAY=:0; /usr/bin/conky'

# Restart the process if it dies with a signal
# or exit code not given by the 'normal exit' stanza.
respawn

# Give up if restart occurs 10 times in 30 seconds.
respawn limit 15 30

    Now after logging in: sudo start conky

    #!upstart
description "nautilus"

# Start job via the daemon control script. Replace "soham" with your username.
exec su -l soham -c 'export DISPLAY=:0; /usr/bin/nautilus'

# Restart the process if it dies with a signal
# or exit code not given by the 'normal exit' stanza.
respawn

# Give up if restart occurs 10 times in 30 seconds.
respawn limit 15 30
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