Please describe the problem:
I am huge fan of Banshee, and I've tried to make it work with Conky ( http://conky.sourceforge.net/ ).



Steps to reproduce:
1. Setup a ${if_running banshee} ${execi 10 banshee --query-title} $endif in .conkyrc
2. Launch Conky
3. Launch Banshee


Actual results:
Multiple instances of Banshee occur when you query it while the splash screen is showing.

When you try to close the application, it gets restarted.

Expected results:
banshee --query-* should fail if banshee is not running. You might consider having a separate banshee-query process or writing the now playing information to a file that can be read off disk and parsed.

Does this happen every time?
Yes

Other information:
I have pasted the .conkyrc file and my workaround script to this bug. Change the path to the script to match where you saved it onto your system. 

I'm getting around this bug by querying Banshee indirectly with another PID check and an initial sleep command to wait for it to initialise properly.
Check .conkyrc to see how the 'init' part is called.

.conkyrc
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------
# THIS CONFIG RELIES ON 2 SCRIPTS, CPUSPEED AND CPUTEMP
# YOUR SYSTEM MAY NOT REQUIRE THEM, REPLACE AS DESIRED

# This is the number of times Conky will update before quitting.
# Set to zero to run forever.
total_run_times 0

# maintain spacing between certain elements
use_spacer yes

# set to yes if you want conky to be forked in the background
background yes

use_xft yes

# Xft font when Xft is enabled
xftfont Sans-8
#xftfont Andale Mono-9
#xftfont Clean-8
#xftfont cubicfive10:pixelsize=8
#xftfont squaredance10:pixelsize=14
#xftfont swf!t_v02:pixelsize=10
# Text alpha when using Xft
xftalpha 1
mail_spool $MAIL

# Update interval in seconds
update_interval 1.0

# Create own window instead of using desktop (required in nautilus)
own_window yes
own_window_type override
own_window_hints undecorated,below,sticky,skip_taskbar,skip_pager
own_window_transparent yes
maximum_width 200

# Use double buffering (reduces flicker, may not work for everyone)
double_buffer yes

# Minimum size of text area
minimum_size 200 5

# Draw shades?
draw_shades no

# Draw outlines?
draw_outline  no # amplifies text

# Draw borders around text
draw_borders no

# Stippled borders?
stippled_borders 5

# border margins
border_margin 9

# border width
border_width 1

# Default colors and also border colours
default_color white
default_shade_color 7b7b7b 
default_outline_color white 

# Heading colour
color0 ffffff

# Label colour
color1 b1eaff

# Graph outline
color2 ffffff

# Graph colour one
color3 ffffff 

# Graph colour two
color4 ffffff 

color5 ffffff

# Top colour one
color6 b1eaff

# Top colour two
color7 ffffff

# Top colour three
color8 ffffff

# Top colour four
color9 ffffff

# Text alignment, other possible values are commented
# Values:top_left|top_right bottom_left|bottom_right
alignment bottom_left

# Gap between borders of screen and text
gap_x 5
gap_y 5

# Subtract file system buffers from used memory?
no_buffers yes

# set to yes if you want all text to be in uppercase
uppercase no
#${execi 10 if [ -z "$BANSHEE_STARTING" ]; then sleep 5;BANSHEE_STARTING=1; fi}

# stuff after 'TEXT' will be formatted on screen
TEXT
${color0}${font openlogos:bold:size=20}B${font impact:bold size=20}  ARCH LINUX$font
${color1}Date:    $color${alignr}${exec date +"%a, %d %b, %H:%m"}
${color1}Weather: $color${alignr}${execi 600 ~/Scripts/weather.sh "30043"}
${color1}Gmail:                                                    $color${execi 600 perl ~/Scripts/gmail.pl n}
${color1}Uptime:  $color${alignr}${uptime}
${color1}Load:    $color${alignr}${loadavg 1} ${loadavg 2} ${loadavg 3}
${if_running banshee}
${execi 10 export BANSHEE_STARTING=`~/Scripts/banshee.sh init`}
${color0}${font impact:bold size=20}MUSIC$font
${color1}Artist: $color${alignr}${execi 10 ~/Scripts/banshee.sh artist}
${color1}Title:  $color${alignr}${execi 10 ~/Scripts/banshee.sh title}
${color1}Album:  $color${alignr}${execi 10 ~/Scripts/banshee.sh album}
${color0}${execibar 10 ~/Scripts/banshee.sh progress}
$endif
${color0}${font impact:bold size=20}PROCESSES$font
${color1}CPU: $color$cpu% ${alignr}${acpitemp}°C
${color1}${cpugraph 20,200 ffffff ffffff}
    
${color6}${top name 1}${alignr}${top cpu 1}%
${color7}${top name 2}${alignr}${top cpu 2}%
${color8}${top name 3}${alignr}${top cpu 3}%

${color0}${font impact:bold size=20}MEMORY$font
${color1}RAM: $color${alignr}$memperc%
${color2}${membar 3,200}${color}
${color1}Swap: $color${alignr}$swapperc%
${color2}${swapbar 3,200}${color} ${alignr}$swap/$swapmax
    
${color0}${font impact:bold size=20}FILESYSTEM$font$color
${color1}Root: $color${alignr}${fs_free_perc /}%
${color2}${fs_bar 3,200 /}
${color1}Home: $color${alignr}${fs_free_perc /home}%
${color2}${fs_bar 3,200 /home}

${color0}${font impact:bold size=20}NETWORK$font$color
${color1}Name: $color${alignr}${wireless_essid eth1}
${color1}Bitrate: $color${alignr}${wireless_bitrate eth1}
${color1}Quality:                                            $color${wireless_link_qual_perc eth1}
${color2}${wireless_link_bar 3,200 eth1}

${color1}Down: $color${downspeed eth1}KiB/s ${color1}${alignr}Up: $color${upspeed eth1}KiB/s
${color1}${downspeedgraph eth1 20,99 ffffff ffffff} ${upspeedgraph eth1 20,99
ffffff ffffff}

banshee.sh
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
#!/bin/sh

if [ -z "$(pidof banshee)" ]
then
    exit
fi

case "$1" in
	( "init" )
        if [ -z "$BANSHEE_STARTING" ]
        then
            sleep 7;
            echo "started"
        else
            echo "started"
        fi
	;;
	
	( "artist" )
		echo `banshee --no-present --hide-field --query-artist`
	;;
	
	( "album" )
		echo `banshee --no-present --hide-field --query-title`
	;;

	( "title" )
		echo `banshee --no-present --hide-field --query-title`
	;;
	
	( "genre" )
		echo `banshee --no-present --hide-field --query-genre`
	;;

	( "duration" )
		echo `banshee --no-present --hide-field --query-duration`
	;;

	( "position" )
		echo `banshee --no-present --hide-field --query-position`
	;;

	( "uri" )
		echo `banshee --no-present --hide-field --query-uri`
	;;

	( "cover-uri" )
		echo `banshee --no-present --hide-field --query-uri`
	;;

	( "progress" )
		STATUS=`banshee --no-present --hide-field --query-status`
		
		if [ "$STATUS" -ne "-1" ]
        	then
			SONG_POSITION=`banshee --no-present --hide-field --query-position`
            		SONG_DURATION=`banshee --no-present --hide-field --query-duration`
            	
            		echo $SONG_POSITION $SONG_DURATION | awk '{ print $1 / $2 * 100}'
		else
			echo 0
		fi
    	;;
esac