XFCE & QT Apps

[purslow at sympatico.ca]

040424 Stephen Kuhn wrote:
> 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 $USER | grep kdeinit | wc -l` -le 2 ] ; then
>>>       kdeinit &
>>>   fi
>>> It starts a kdeinit process
>>> which makes starting KDE applications much faster
>>> because the first KDE application starts the dcopserver
>>> and this is now done by kdeinit.
>> i use several KDE apps on my XFCE desktops & the 1st is slow to start,
>> as it has to load the KDE libs & start the Dcop server.
>> i tried BW's addition to  ~/.xfce4/xinitrc  (his file is  ~/.xinitrc ),
>> but if i place the lines before the start of the panel,
>> the panel size is reduced, as are the panel fonts (rather ugly),
>> while if i place them after the start of the panel,
>> the KDE stuff doesn't start at all.
> this is what's in the xinitrc:
>   # Start-up stuff from ~/Desktop/Autostart directory, if it exists
>   # (as it seems to be the new standard)
>   if test -d "$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
> so  /home/yournamegoeshere/Desktop/Autostart  is
> where you'd put your softlinks...

well thanx & i did test it,
but all that does is the equivalent of inserting BW's lines (above).
for whatever reason -- 'kdeinit' loading fonts ? -- ,
the panel is shorter & its fonts are smaller.

so does anyone have an explanation of the latter (a bug?)
& any suggestions for getting round the KDE start-up problem otherwise ?

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