Some questions about session saving

[Chris G]

On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 12:01:10PM -0800, Brian J. Tarricone wrote:
> 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.
> 
Removing the splash screen seems to have fixed the problem, my xfce
workspaces pop up just about instantly now.

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Chris Green