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kiguru

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Registered: 2007-11-27

Posts: 31

x takes longer to load.can i reduce it(need some tips)?

hey guys
on my p3 1.3 laptop with intel 830 chips everything including module and all other daemon except gdm takes 14 seconds but after that gdm takes 16 seconds.
i tried slim but no luck it only cut 3 seconds.
how can i load it faster?

mykey

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From: out of the blue

Registered: 2007-03-02

Posts: 113

Re: x takes longer to load.can i reduce it(need some tips)?

Forget a graphical login manager - check this http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Start_X_at_boot

SiC

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From: Liverpool, England

Registered: 2008-01-10

Posts: 430

Re: x takes longer to load.can i reduce it(need some tips)?

Try playing with hdparm see if that improves things.  How much memory / swap space does your laptop have?  How long does X take to load when you aren't running a login manager?

In all fairness htough, my laptop takes about 8-10 seconds to load slim, which isn't that much faster than yours, so I don't really think you have much of a problem, your login manager is a run-once kinda affair, it doesn't really affect how your system performs when you are running normally. I'd make a fair bet that windows would take much longer than 30s to load on the same machine....

dyscoria

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Registered: 2008-01-10

Posts: 1,007

Re: x takes longer to load.can i reduce it(need some tips)?

I'd make a fair bet that windows would take much longer than 30s to load on the same machine....

Agreed!

Especially with all the anti-spyware anti-virus anti-hacker zone-alarm stuff that a knowledgable user would run on Windows, its painfully slow. When I borrowed an XP laptop a couple months back, it took anywhere between 2mins and 4mins from power button to 'usable' desktop. Basically after login, everything froze until the anti-everything stuff finished loading up. And thats Windows in a nutshell

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dyscoria

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Registered: 2008-01-10

Posts: 1,007

Re: x takes longer to load.can i reduce it(need some tips)?

To the OP, if you don't want an automatic login, it's faster to forget a login manager completely and just use the non graphical terminal (init3 or whatever) and login through that. All you need to do after logging in is 'startx' and you're sorted. No need to load gdm/kdm/slim.

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vogt

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From: Toronto, Canada

Registered: 2006-11-25

Posts: 389

Re: x takes longer to load.can i reduce it(need some tips)?

All you need to do after logging in is 'startx' and you're sorted. No need to load gdm/kdm/slim.

That's a bit of unnecessary work; automatically start x when you login into vc1 with

if [[ -z "$DISPLAY" ]] && [[ $(tty) = /dev/vc/1 ]]; then
  xinit
  logout
fi

In your ~/.bash_profile

Other options are in the arch wiki

kiguru

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Registered: 2007-11-27

Posts: 31

Re: x takes longer to load.can i reduce it(need some tips)?

skipping login manager saved my 9 seconds. Now login shell -> openbox takes 6 seconds with all daemons backgrounded incredible isnt it?

and now windows in my opinion is an operating system build by fools for the fools(1 year ago i was a fool ).forgive me if i was little harsh.
At the beginning start up time was ~50 seconds and after a month it had reached to 1 min 37 seconds to login window and system tray still loading progs .
windows by no means compete arch in any way.