[PATCH] Make xfce4 start up faster

[Cody A.W. Somerville]

On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 3:26 PM, Landry Breuil <landry.breuil at gmail.com>wrote:

> On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 11:07 PM, Kok, Auke <sofar at foo-projects.org>
> wrote:
>
<snip>

>
> >
> > One of the issues we've found is that xfce4-session waits for each
> process to
> > complete forking before starting the next part (xfdesktop, panel, thunar
> etc...).
> > This part is easily acceleratable and cuts down startup time quite a bit,
> from
> > like 2.5secs to 1.5secs or so, if not more.
>
> This was an issue i struggled with, and couldn't find a way to
> circumvent it, source code was too obscure to me.. Great you finally
> found out ! Here, startup is clearly faster, and the patch (against
> 4.4.2, but would probably apply against trunk) has been tested by
> various OpenBSD users who found it improved startup time too. I'm
> thinking of integrating it in our ports-tree.


I imagine we'll also be looking at this patch for Intrepid if Xfce 4.6
doesn't mean it out the door :-)


>
>
> Thanks !
>
> Landry
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Cody A.W. Somerville
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Canonical OEM Solutions Group
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