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outkine

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Registered: 2023-06-08

Posts: 2

[SOLVED] Applications slow to start after system upgrade

I use Arch with the i3 window manager. After a full-system upgrade Firefox, Thunderbird, and LibreOffice are very slow to start (it takes half a minute), and telegram-desktop does not start at all. However, when I switch to GNOME, I don't have an issue with any of these applications, so this seems to be an issue with i3 specifically.

I've tried downgrading i3, qt, and mesa, but nothing has helped. I would appreciate some guidance on how to debug this. Thank you!

Last edited by outkine (2023-06-08 17:49:13)

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

Posts: 25,237

Re: [SOLVED] Applications slow to start after system upgrade

Bunch of threads on this already, remove  xdg-desktop-portal-gnome if you're not on gnome, replace with xdg-desktop-portal-gtk if you need a portal implementation.

outkine

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Registered: 2023-06-08

Posts: 2

Re: [SOLVED] Applications slow to start after system upgrade

Perfect, thank you so much Sorry about not searching the forum first!

Last edited by outkine (2023-06-08 17:47:10)

dr1fter

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From: Germany

Registered: 2022-01-21

Posts: 58

Re: [SOLVED] Applications slow to start after system upgrade

Thank you so much! I can confirm this issue also affects cinnamon. The suggested fix also works for cinnamon.

2ManyDogs

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Registered: 2012-01-15

Posts: 4,648

Re: [SOLVED] Applications slow to start after system upgrade

Closing this solved topic.