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#1 2008-11-09 02:12:20

Gullible Jones
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Any way to speed up Slim?

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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#2 2008-11-09 02:48:10

iBertus
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Re: Any way to speed up Slim?

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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#3 2008-11-09 12:31:40

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Re: Any way to speed up Slim?


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#4 2008-11-09 12:48:26

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Re: Any way to speed up Slim?

Workaround != solution


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#5 2008-11-09 14:19:29

xen
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Re: Any way to speed up Slim?

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 smile


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#6 2008-11-09 14:45:19

Mr Green
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Re: Any way to speed up Slim?

watch those slim logs they used to be massive!!!!!

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#7 2009-01-21 15:14:17

stabele
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Registered: 2008-12-22
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Re: Any way to speed up Slim?

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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#8 2009-01-22 06:50:10

SaThaRiel
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Registered: 2008-09-24
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Re: Any way to speed up Slim?

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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