[PATCH] Make xfce4 start up faster

Grant McWilliams grantmasterflash at gmail.com
Tue Sep 16 00:57:22 CEST 2008


On Mon, Sep 15, 2008 at 11:26 AM, Brian J. Tarricone <bjt23 at cornell.edu>wrote:

> Grant McWilliams wrote:
>
> > Can we make sure there's a way of turning this off? In special cases I
> need
> > one thing to start before another because the second has a dependency on
> the
> > first. I guess the other way would be to have a script autostart which in
> > turns starts the two thing synchronously.
>
>
> Yes and no.  XSMP has a concept of startup priorities, which the current
> patch doesn't support at all.  I'd like to be able to support this by
> starting things in batches -- basically, for each prio level, start all
> the apps in that prio level, an wait for them to either register with
> the SM, or fail, and then move to the next prio level.  So, if you have
> apps that have ordering requirements, and set the SM priority property,
> then yeah, it'll work as you need it to.  Otherwise, it won't.
>
>        -brian
>

That would work for my application.

-- 
Grant McWilliams
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