Starting conky on shell startup

All my attempts to start conky automatically on Linux startup have been unsuccessful. Now I have given up on that and am using a few lines of shell script to start conky on starting up the shell. As the first thing I do after starting up linux is to start the gnome-terminal, I have added a few lines to .bashrc to check if conky is running and if not to start it. I will have to do with this until a better solution can be found.

conky_ps=`ps -e | grep conky`
if [ "$conky_ps" = '' ]; then
    conky -d
    sleep 1
    clear
fi