Conky not working in Gnome 3.4

Just replace own_window_type override with following lines:

own_window_type normal
own_window_argb_visual yes

and use following command to start conky automatically at startup:

bash -c "sleep 20; conky"

I created a little script that runs conky delayed. I'm not sure why, but there is some kind of problems by running it just when the computer starts. So create a script (hidden in your home folder, in this case) with

gedit ~/.conkystart.sh

then add:

#!/bin/bash
sleep 30; conky
exit

and give it the execute permissions

chmod +x ~/.conkystart.sh

as you can see what the script does is only starts conky after sleeping (waiting) 30 seconds

Now go to the startup application and add this script instead of conky itself

Now restart (or logout and login) ubuntu and wait for 30 seconds. Does it shows up now?

What you need script for? Just launch it like this by adding to Startup list.

conky -p 20 -c /home/{username}/.conkyrc

try some of these parameters, specially the own_window_type:

update_interval 3
total_run_times 0
own_window yes
own_window_type normal
own_window_transparent yes
own_window_hints undecorated,below,sticky,skip_taskbar,skip_pager
double_buffer yes
....
draw_outline no
draw_borders no
draw_graph_borders no

Also, I had problems when starting conky at login in an automatically way, so now, I am used to run conky manually. When you try this way do you still have the problem?