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I've been using Slim, and I've noticed that it's very slow on login. As in, it can sit around with a dark screen, doing nothing, for up to thirty seconds. Is this a bug of some kind, or is it supposed to wait like this? Can I make it wait a shorter time, e.g. with different compile options?
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This has been a problem with Slim for awhile. I'm not sure any solution exists currently and I'm not even sure what the problem is. Strange, I had this issue off and on during my stint with Slim; sometimes the login screen would pop right up and sometimes it would sit for a minute on a black screen.
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Console login anyone?
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Workaround != solution
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I notice Slim is slow after logging out and waiting for the screen to re-appear, seems as though it can't find the right resolution or something. Perhaps we could gather a few of us looking to improve Slim and get hacking on the codebase to make the performance better
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watch those slim logs they used to be massive!!!!!
Last edited by Mr Green (2008-11-09 14:46:01)
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One thing that slows SLiM down is image resizing - on my notebook i resized background image to my LCD resolution and changed in slim.theme :
background_style stretch
to
background_style tile
It made SLiM start noticeable faster. Not sure which image format (.jpg or .png) and which compression options are fastest for SLiM to handle, I tried .png with zero compression level.
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You should also install hsetroot from the AUR. It seems that slim looks first for this to set its background, than looking for other "root-picture setters". It improved the startup speed for me too.
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