Slow start for desktop effects

[Michele]

On 10/19/07, Marius Gedminas <marius at pov.lt> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Oct 19, 2007 at 05:55:56PM +0100, Michele wrote:
> > I have recently installed Gutsy on a (rather old) laptop and I have a
> number
> > of small issues which I would like to expose in a number of emails.
> >
> > This is installment one:
>
> Ah, so I didn't miss it, it just arrived later than the other ones, for
> some reason.
>
> > After I enter the user name and password I can start reasonably quickly
> to
> > work ( e.g. type in the terminal) on a metacity desktop.
>
> Good for you.  I have to wait 35 seconds for my desktop to fully load,
> and this is on a brand new laptop.  The disk is busily reading something
> all that time, perhaps I just have too many panel applets.
>
> > After 4 or 5
> > minutes then compiz-fusion kicks in (fusion icon, desktop cube, window
> > decorator and the rest). Even if I leave the computer alone, it takes
> > roughly the same time for the desktop effects to start and the system
> > monitor does not show any activity.
>
> No CPU activity?  What about disk activity?
>
> > fusion-icon is registered in the start
> > up programs list.
> >
> > Is there a way to speed up the start of the desktop effects or at least
> to
> > understand why this is happening?
>
> If both the CPU and the disk are idle during those 4-5 minutes, then
> it's probably some timeout.  Sometimes these are caused by a
> misconfigured loopback network interface (you can check that with
> ifconfig lo in a terminal), sometimes by broken DNS settings (e.g.
> hostname in /etc/hostname not matching the one in /etc/hosts).
>
> If you check with gnome-system-monitor (or top, or pstree) during those
> minutes of idleness, do you see any compiz processes?
>
> If you try to restart compiz with Alt-F2, "compiz --replace", does it
> start instantly or do you get the same delay?
>
> Marius Gedminas
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> Hello Marius,

Sorry for coming back to you after a few days, but did not have a chance to
use the laptop that much.
I have solved this problem: for some reason my session included both the
gnome window manager gnome-wm and the fusion-icon program.
I have removed the gnome-wm and now the computer starts immediately with CF.


Cheers,

Michele
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