XFCE & QT Apps
purslow at sympatico.ca
purslow at sympatico.ca
Sat Apr 24 08:58:11 CEST 2004
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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