There…I can live without the weather on this one for now, so I’m uploading it here lest I ever again forget to save a copy before wiping it out. I’m told you don’t need to start it with a script anymore (in Hardy and Intrepid, it would start and quit if you didn’t delay), but I read that some people are having Compiz draw shadows under it if it’s started right away, and I can’t be arsed to read how to make Compiz not do that, so I’m using a delay; 20 seconds is actually even better, to give aMSN a chance to fully load. It’s just
#!/bin/bash
sleep 20
conky &
I called it “startup-stuff.sh”, just in case I want to add something non-conky to it at some point in time.