Re: Gnome login performance

[Jonathan Blandford <jrb redhat com>]

Telsa Gwynne <hobbit aloss ukuu org uk> writes:

> On my MediaGX with 96Mb of RAM running RH 8.0 with no tweaks or
> changes from the defaults, when starting X, I get a blank screen 
> for over a minute before the splashscreen even occurs.
> 
> This is when I start X after booting up. Alan reckons it's drawing 
> the background that is taking the time. So I suppose this should
> go against gdk-pixbuf. If someone will tell me what I should be 
> looking at, I can follow directions. I don't have any fancy tools 
> for this though: just assume what you'd find on a reasonably full 
> Linux install. 

It definitely draws the background after the splash.  Can you log in,
logout immediately, shut down gconfd and bonobo-activation-server, then
log back in to see if that speeds things up?

-Jonathan