[SOLVED] gedit and evince take 30 secs to open over X11

fortuna · 2021-02-09 15:51:55

So I connect to a PC running archlinux using X11 forwarding:
ssh -Y user@machine

In the shell that opens I start evince or gedit. It takes approx. 30 secs before they start. Other applications however like Firefox, Thunderbird or Gimp start straight away.
And if I start evince or gedit as root they start immediately too:
sudo -E gedit

Looks like a permissions issue, but how to troubleshoot?

Last edited by fortuna (2021-02-09 17:59:03)

ugjka · 2021-02-09 15:55:27

Output of:

journalctl --user -u xdg-desktop-portal-gtk --no-pager

fortuna · 2021-02-09 16:06:18

Feb 09 17:04:34 BBB systemd[594]: Starting Portal service (GTK+/GNOME implementation)...
Feb 09 17:04:35 BBB xdg-desktop-portal-gtk[3406]: Unable to init server: Could not connect: Connection refused
Feb 09 17:04:35 BBB xdg-desktop-por[3406]: cannot open display:
Feb 09 17:04:35 BBB systemd[594]: xdg-desktop-portal-gtk.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
Feb 09 17:04:35 BBB systemd[594]: xdg-desktop-portal-gtk.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
Feb 09 17:04:35 BBB systemd[594]: Failed to start Portal service (GTK+/GNOME implementation).

And then it opens anyway!

ugjka · 2021-02-09 17:11:22

Try this as your user:

systemctl --user mask xdg-desktop-portal-gtk.service

fortuna · 2021-02-09 17:15:45

That helps! Thanks a lot!

Created symlink /home/sil/.config/systemd/user/xdg-desktop-portal-gtk.service → /dev/null.

What did it do?

ugjka · 2021-02-09 17:23:22

It stops that service from being called and run, if you want it back just do the reverse:

systemctl --user unmask xdg-desktop-portal-gtk.service

fortuna · 2021-02-09 17:40:50

Why would I want it back? I don't even know what it is

ugjka · 2021-02-09 17:47:35

I guess, it is supposed to do something useful but is doing very poor job at it. On my mixed kde/gnome system it is never triggered.

Anyway, if this is solved please prepend [Solved] to the topic title

fortuna · 2021-02-09 17:51:52

Sorry. I will. Thanks again.

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[SOLVED] gedit and evince take 30 secs to open over X11

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