XFCE & QT Apps

Stephen Kuhn skuhn at telpacific.com.au
Sat Apr 24 00:45:33 CEST 2004


On Sat, 2004-04-24 at 08:22, purslow at sympatico.ca wrote:
> 040307 Bernhard Walle wrote re accelerating start-up of KDE apps:
> > I use this in my ~/.xinitrc
> >   if [ `ps aux | grep $USER | grep kdeinit | wc -l` -le 2 ] ; then
> >       kdeinit &
> >   fi
> > It starts a kdeinit process
> > which makes starting KDE applications much faster
> > because the first KDE application starts the dcopserver
> > and this is now done by kdeinit.
> 
> i use several KDE apps on my XFCE desktops & the 1st is slow to start,
> as it has to load the KDE libs & start the Dcop server.
> i tried BW's addition to  ~/.xfce4/xinitrc  (his file is  ~/.xinitrc ),
> but if i place the lines before the start of the panel,
> the panel size is reduced, as are the panel fonts (rather ugly),
> while if i place them after the start of the panel,
> the KDE stuff doesn't start at all.
> 
> it wb nice to have XFCE start the KDE stuff -- if requested --
> after it has started all the XFCE pieces,
> but while the user gets his/her desktops (& thoughts) organised for the day,
> so that the 1st KDE app can start with minimum delay.
> 
> does anyone have explanations or suggestions ?

Sorry - I was wrong about the Autostart dir - this is what's in the
xinitrc:

# Start-up stuff from ~/Desktop/Autostart directory, if it exists
# (as it seems to be the new standard)
if test -d "$HOME/Desktop/Autostart"; then
  for i in `ls -1 -L ${HOME}/Desktop/Autostart/ 2>/dev/null`; do
    if test -x $HOME/Desktop/Autostart/$i; then
      $HOME/Desktop/Autostart/$i &
    fi
  done
fi

if test -f $HOME/.Xmodmap; then
	xmodmap $HOME/.Xmodmap
fi

# End of clip

...so then you'd have a /home/yournamegoeshere/Desktop/Autostart
directory and that's where you'd put your softlinks...

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