Re: Login time



On Tue, 2007-04-10 at 14:30 +1000, Magnus Boman wrote:
> Federico,
> 
> Looking at the page http://live.gnome.org/GnomePerformance/LoginTime you
> want to patch Nautilus to see when the Desktop is loaded and painted.
> Would it be possible to see this via strace? If that's the case, it
> should be easy to use strace and fifo in combination with a script to
> see when it's done?

Doesn't strace drastically affect performance? I thought the goal was to
see how long these parts of the login process take under normal
conditions.

> If the above is true, the I guess the same goes for gnome-panel and
> gnome-session?
> 
> Cheers,
> Magnus
> 
> On Mon, 2007-04-09 at 08:34 -0500, Federico Mena Quintero wrote:
> > El vie, 06-04-2007 a las 18:34 +1000, Andrew Cowie escribió:
> > > On Thu, 2007-04-05 at 16:09 +0100, Iain * wrote:
> > > > The desktop is just another window, but a special cased one with no
> > > > toolbars, statusbars etc.
> > > 
> > > Once upon a time X had the notion of a root window and an image or
> > > pattern could be placed upon it. Does nautilus [not] use this?
> > 
> > Advantages of using the root window:
> > 
> > - It's just there.
> > 
> > Disadvantages of using the root window:
> > 
> > - Multi-visual X servers (especially ancient ones from Sun, HP, SGI,
> > etc.) like to use an 8-bit pseudocolor visual for the root window.  GTK+
> > prefers to run in 24-bit truecolor if available.  Having to manage
> > different visuals is painful and error-prone, and you don't want ugly
> > 8-bit dithering on your desktop background anyway.
> > 
> > - You can't easily have different backgrounds on each screen or virtual
> > desktop.
> > 
> > - It's harder for Nautilus to hang GTK+ widgets from the root window; it
> > prefers a normal toplevel.
> > 
> > - The Window Manager Spec already has provisions for such
> > desktop-background windows, so window managers know how to handle them.
> > If a window manager [particularly Enlightenment] wants to have its own
> > concept of a "virtual root window", it can accomodate Nautilus easily.
> > 
> >   Federico
> > 
> > 
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