Xfce4-4.16 very slow to start

[Rich Shepard]

On Tue, 15 Mar 2022, Paul Menzel wrote:

> That’s a shame.

Paul,

Not really. Slackware avoids systemd. :-)

> How do you start the Xfce session? from the command line or some (graphical) 
> login manager?

/usr/bin/startx

> Running `execsnoop` and `opensnoop` in parallel on other TTYs should show you 
> what is happening, or you need to run everything under `strace` (`strace -ff 
> -t` or so).

No *snoop here. I'll read about strace and run it.

Thanks,

Rich