Some questions about session saving

Brian J. Tarricone bjt23 at cornell.edu
Mon Nov 10 21:01:10 CET 2008


Chris G wrote:

> However there is another issue, xfce takes *ages* to actually start up
> after I've logged in, I get a disjointed display of the mouse with the
> circulating thing around it flicking around on a blank screen for tens
> of seconds before my workspaces appear.  This is on a new quad-core
> system with 8Gb of memory.

What version of Xfce are you running?  4.4.x will likely take a very 
long time to start if you have many apps in your session -- it starts 
apps in order, waiting for each one to start up before moving on to the 
next.  The Xfce 4.6.x beta does it in parallel, and should be a lot faster.

	-brian



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