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Seacat17

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(SOLVED) Slow MATE startup

Okay, I understand this is stupid as hell and so on, but...

I wanted to give Plasma a try. But it failed to amaze me so I used "pacman -R plasma" and the same command for all the other things like Konsole, Dolphin and other KDE utilities.

Now I'm back on MATE and I see problems.

First of them is that I can't disable/enable networking and/or Wi-Fi with NetworkManager Applet. Those options are just greyed out and I can do nothing to enable them.

Also, just like the always-enabled Wi-Fi wasn't enough - MATE loads very, VEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEERYYYYYYY slowly now. I removed everything I could find from Plasma but it still refuses to load as fast as it was loading. Also, sometimes it loads, but resuses to display anything until I will jump to TTY2 and then back to TTY7.

I... Regret trying to fit Plasma and MATE on the same installation...

What could I break? Google and Duck say nothing about it.

Last edited by Seacat17 (2023-05-17 15:51:34)

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seth

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Re: (SOLVED) Slow MATE startup

Please post your complete system journal for the boot:

sudo journalctl -b | curl -F 'file=@-' 0x0.st

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Seacat17

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Re: (SOLVED) Slow MATE startup

http://0x0.st/HNQ-.txt

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Seacat17

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Re: (SOLVED) Slow MATE startup

OKAY, um, please don't hate me, but basically after 30+ reboots NetworkManager applet started working as it was supposed to. But the startup is still painfully slow though.

I found this (https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=285758) thread here where a person mentioned a slow startup. Before tinkering with Plasma I did a full update. Maybe it has something to do with my startup speed?

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seth

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Re: (SOLVED) Slow MATE startup

May 13 23:04:19 seacat17-laptop kernel: Linux version 6.3.1-arch2-1 (linux@archlinux) (gcc (GCC) 13.1.1 20230429, GNU ld (GNU Binutils) 2.40.0) #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Wed, 10 May 2023 08:54:47 +0000
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May 13 23:04:25 seacat17-laptop systemd-logind[476]: New session c1 of user lightdm.

Boot until lightdm shows up is 6 seconds, I assume that's not what you meant by "VEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEERYYYYYYY slowly".

But the update is the cause:

May 13 23:05:35 seacat17-laptop mate-session[707]: WARNING: Application 'marco.desktop' failed to register before timeout

=> https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=285764

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Seacat17

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Re: (SOLVED) Slow MATE startup

So that means it's okay for now, and it's not my fault and I just need to wait for update? If yes - you can close the thread then, the problem solved by itself :'D

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seth

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Re: (SOLVED) Slow MATE startup

That's the working theory.

Mark resolved threads by editing your initial posts subject - so others will know that there's no task left, but maybe a solution to find.
Thanks.

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Seacat17

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Re: (SOLVED) Slow MATE startup

Posting here because it's done. It's 17.05.2023, I just updated, and the system is blazing-fast now. And I love it

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