[SOLVED]xfce4-terminal very slow startup

walkingrobot · 2016-11-21 12:39:46

Hello,

After updating xfce4-terminal to 0.8.0-1 it now take about 25 seconds to start. Once 1 terminal is open I can open another one and it starts right away. I am not sure what to look at. I did create a new user to see if there was maybe something in my ~/.config but it does the same thing.

If I start it from tilda I get this messgae:

** (xfce4-terminal:1587): WARNING **: Error retrieving accessibility bus address: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NoReply: Did not receive a reply. Possible causes include: the remote application did not send a reply, the message bus security policy blocked the reply, the reply timeout expired, or the network connection was broken.

I have googled and searched forums. Nothing helped,

Thanks for the help.
Dennis

Last edited by walkingrobot (2016-11-22 13:20:19)

seth · 2016-11-21 13:26:10

25s is the dbus timeout - smells like dbus-launch or ck-launch-session is used (there're threads around where xfce does that if some DBUS variable is wrong)
=>

ps aux | grep -iE '(launch|xfce)'

walkingrobot · 2016-11-21 13:35:51

More info current version of xfce4-terminal is 0.8.1-1 and if I run dbus-launch exporting that DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS and DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ID it works fine. But my dbus_session_bus_address changes to unix:abstract=/tmp/dbus-WAs2lwD2a2,guid=6db906b29175e10f93de77545832f2cd
instead of unix:path=/run/user/1000/bus

seth · 2016-11-21 13:47:40

You shall not run dbus-launch at all, if you do that explicitly (in xinitrc or so) simply stop it ;-)

walkingrobot · 2016-11-21 13:52:00

seth wrote:

25s is the dbus timeout - smells like dbus-launch or ck-launch-session is used (there're threads around where xfce does that if some DBUS variable is wrong)
=>
ps aux | grep -iE '(launch|xfce)'

ps aux |grep -iE '(launch|xfce)'
denny 3800 0.0 0.0 11928 2556 tty1 S 05:38 0:00 /bin/sh /etc/xdg/xfce4/xinitrc -- /home/denny/.xserverrc
denny 3821 0.1 0.0 348744 14700 tty1 Sl 05:38 0:00 xfce4-session
denny 3825 0.0 0.0 59768 5272 ? S 05:38 0:00 /usr/lib/xfce4/xfconf/xfconfd
denny 3832 0.9 0.0 305836 22904 tty1 Sl 05:38 0:00 xfce4-panel --display :0.0 --sm-client-id 28093363b-3129-4a93-ba9a-2d77da34f38b
denny 3843 0.5 0.0 448508 44904 ? Ssl 05:38 0:00 xfce4-power-manager --restart --sm-client-id 228fbbbee-e497-428c-86de-baeea712ca06
denny 3849 0.0 0.0 196744 14000 tty1 S 05:38 0:00 /usr/lib/xfce4/panel/wrapper-1.0 /usr/lib/xfce4/panel/plugins/libsystray.so 6 12582950 systray Notification Area Area where notification icons appear
denny 3851 0.0 0.0 197872 15272 tty1 S 05:38 0:00 /usr/lib/xfce4/panel/wrapper-1.0 /usr/lib/xfce4/panel/plugins/libactions.so 16 12582951 actions Action Buttons Log out, lock or other system actions
denny 3853 0.0 0.0 371496 20120 tty1 Sl 05:38 0:00 /usr/lib/xfce4/panel/wrapper-1.0 /usr/lib/xfce4/panel/plugins/libmixer.so 21 12582952 mixer Audio Mixer Adjust volume levels
denny 3886 0.0 0.0 8992 888 pts/0 R+ 05:39 0:00 grep -E --color=auto -iE (launch|xfce)

@seth I don't see dbus-launch or ck-launch

walkingrobot · 2016-11-21 15:12:05

seth wrote:

You shall not run dbus-launch at all, if you do that explicitly (in xinitrc or so) simply stop it ;-)

I'm not running dbus-launch. That was just a (pointless?) test. I checked /etc/bash.bashrc ~/,bashrc ~/.bash_profile ~/.xinitrc ~/.xsession.

walkingrobot · 2016-11-22 13:18:40

Thanks for the help Seth.
The solution seems to NO_AT_BRIDGE=1 environment var. I found in this post https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=176663 but it links to a German wiki so I can't read it, but I tried it and it worked.

seth · 2016-11-22 13:27:22

The wiki says that the terminal (is that really xfce-terminal??) tries to access the assisitive technology service (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assistive … _Interface) which is more of a GNOME thing and rather weird. Thanks for the heads up!

walkingrobot · 2016-11-26 11:26:02

@seth Strange but yes xfce4-terminal and also tilda. Not xterm though.

walkingrobot · 2016-11-27 09:33:56

Seth: affording to https://wiki.xfce.org/releng/4.10/roadmap/accessibility xfce is using at-spi

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