Thanks Ron I don't know if this is *the* way of doing things, but it works: I created a small bash script file to be called at start up. Just adding "conky &" to the session start up didn't work because it would get overwritten by the time Nautillus started up, so after a bit of searching, a script file with a sleep command followed by the invocation to start Conky seems to have worked.
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