Re: Gnome starts very slowly

[Michael Hall <mhall riverside org>]

On Mon, Apr 19, 1999 at 11:23:13PM -0400, William R Pentney wrote:

> I posted about this myself a few times, but no one bit.
> 
> I've been having a similar problem. GNOME apps load verrrry sloowwwwly.
> There's about a 5-10 second wait. Normal apps open fine. First I thought
> it was my lack of esd, but then I installed it. Then I thought it was GTK,
> but other GTK apps run fine.

<snip>

> Any assistance would be greatly appreciated. I like GNOME, but this is
> very annoying and would like to resolve it.

  Do you have a sound card ? My machine doesn't and I started having the
same problem due to some of the changes in recent releases (CVS). Someone
suggested to make sure I had the latest 'esound' and in it's config file
('/usr/local/etc/esd.conf' in my case) to change the line 'auto_spawn=1'
to 'auto_spawn=0'. Worked great for me, no more delays starting GNOME or
GNOME apps. Without the change there was a 5 sec or more delay while esd
probed things and tried to start before eventually failing.

PS: If you're not logging your sessions try changing your .xinitrc (or
    whatever file you're starting it from) so it looks something like:

	exec gnome-session > some.file 2>&1

	depending on what your shell is. Then look in the log and see if you
	see a bunch of lines from esd/esound, if so the above change should
	fix it up.

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Mike Hall <mhall@riverside.org>, (MH993)   -    http://www.riverside.org
System Administrator (*nix, Perl, CGI hacker, certified OS/2 Specialist)