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synthead

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Registered: 2006-05-09

Posts: 1,337

XFCE takes a really long time to start

I've had it start on this laptop way faster before, but somehow I did something to it to really slow down its boot.  You know the default startup splash, how it has a pulsing mouse?  It used to start in 1 or 2 pulses, now it takes like 7 or 8.  Is it trying to connect to samba shares or something?

dunc

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From: Glasgow, UK

Registered: 2007-06-18

Posts: 559

Re: XFCE takes a really long time to start

Have you tried switching to the "simple" splash? It gives a little more information about what's going on (ironically enough ).

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gazj

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Registered: 2007-02-09

Posts: 681

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Re: XFCE takes a really long time to start

Sounds silly have you got localhost in /etc/hosts

/etc/hosts example

#
# /etc/hosts: static lookup table for host names
#

#<ip-address>    <hostname.domain.org>    <hostname>
127.0.0.1        localhost.localdomain    localhost
# End of file

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synthead

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Registered: 2006-05-09

Posts: 1,337

Re: XFCE takes a really long time to start

Hmm, nice one dunc, it's hanging at "Starting Thunar"

dunc

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From: Glasgow, UK

Registered: 2007-06-18

Posts: 559

Re: XFCE takes a really long time to start

I'm afraid I'm going to be of limited help from here on in then, since I use ROX-Filer. But I suppose the next logical step is to kill Thunar, restart it from a terminal window, and see if it spews out any helpful messages.

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