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Nanthiel

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From: Slovenia

Registered: 2009-09-20

Posts: 148

Fish - startup speed

Hello everyone,

I have fish set up as my default shell. My config includes code to automatically start X11 when I login into TTY1.

However, there is a slight pause before X11 begins to start. I assume that is because fish takes a little while to load?

I have tried bash and zsh before, where this was instant. I solved it for bash by putting the code into .profile, which starts up for login shells before .bashrc and the like.

I wonder if there's a way to make fish ignore most of its loading and just run those things first?

Here is my config.fish:

#!/bin/fish

if status --is-login
    set -gx LANG "sl_SI.UTF-8"
    set -gx LC_MESSAGES "en_GB.UTF-8"

    umask 077

    # Autostart X
    if [ -z "$DISPLAY" -a (tty) = "/dev/tty1" ]
        exec startx
    end
else if status --is-interactive
    set -g fish_color_autosuggestion 555
    set -g fish_color_command red
    set -g fish_color_comment 555
    set -g fish_color_cwd blue
    set -g fish_color_cwd_root red
    set -g fish_color_end red
    set -g fish_color_error red --bold
    set -g fish_color_escape yellow
    set -g fish_color_host normal
    set -g fish_color_match blue
    set -g fish_color_normal normal
    set -g fish_color_operator red
    set -g fish_color_param normal
    set -g fish_color_quote magenta
    set -g fish_color_redirection green --bold
    set -g fish_color_search_match blue
    set -g fish_color_search_match purple
    set -g fish_color_status red --bold
    set -g fish_color_user normal
    set -g fish_color_valid_path normal
    set -g fish_pager_color_completion normal
    set -g fish_pager_color_description blue
    set -g fish_pager_color_prefix blue
    set -g fish_pager_color_progress cyan --bold
    set -g fish_pager_color_secondary cyan --bold

    set -gx BROWSER firefox
    set -gx EDITOR vim
    set -gx PDFVIEWER acroread
end

Thanks,
Matej