xfce4-session: longer start

[Benedikt Meurer]

Benedikt Meurer wrote:
> Sergey Manucharyan wrote:
> 
>> Hi developers,
> 
> 
> Hey Sergey,
> 
>> I like the new 4.1.x versions of xfce and appreciate your great work.
>> I use xfce4-session for several months. But after updating my xfce4 
>> from cvs today I've found, that it's start time increased 
>> significantly and reached 36 sec (!!) on my Arch Linux box 
>> (AthlonXP1700 (1100MHz)/256Mb/7200rpm HDD). Then I've replaced 
>> xfce4-session from cvs of May 19 - the start time became 20 sec. The 
>> next step - cvs of April 22 - with the best result of 9 sec. (I 
>> measure the time xfce takes to start just after rebooting).
>> Is it just temporarily inconvenient "side effect" of the developing 
>> unstable version, or there are some hidden features inside?
> 
> 
> Somebody reported a similar problem on IRC recently. I think I know what 
> causes this problem: You fire up 4 (or probably more) sessions clients, 
> but they don't register properly with the session manager, and the 
> session manager gives each client 8sec to register, so it waits this 
> 8sec and then continues with the next client (4 * 8 + x = 36, where x is 
> the overhead of starting the session manager, connecting to the Xserver, 
> doing Autostart, etc.).
> 
> Since xfce4-session works fine for most of us, I think the problem is 
> caused by libSM and/or libICE on your machine, or maybe your system 
> configuration. Honestly I can't think of anything a user could mess up 
> with, that'd cause such problems and wouldn't be detected the sanity 
> check xfce4-session performs at startup, but if you find out, please let 
> me know, so I can add it to the sanity check. You could start by sending 
> every piece of information about your system regarding session 
> management (Which OS? libSM/libICE version? etc.), maybe that helps 
> tracking the problem.

Just a guess, but do you have the iceauth utility installed?

Benedikt

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