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fikr4n
Asked: 2024-10-09 12:08:26 +0800 CST

Some applications start very slow after boot on Ubuntu 24.04

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After boot or reboot, many applications start very slow.

  • Firefox: normal
  • Android Studio (manual install, not snap): normal
  • GIMP: normal
  • Nautilus: slow, uses white theme instead (I use dark theme btw)
  • LibreOffice: slow
  • Inkscape: slow
  • Gnome Terminal: not opens at all

However everything is normal after long time, probably after 10 minutes or several hours, all applications start normally, even Nautilus uses dark theme.

I found another question but the solution is not relevant to mine, probably because it is Ubuntu 19.10 instead of 24.04.

How to solve this? Or at least, how to debug this, so I know how to report the bug.

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1 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    I had a similar issue: similar apps the question mentions take more time to open, and when they do, they simply open in Light Mode even though the system is set to Dark Mode.

    After several searches and troubleshooting using journalctl -f, I found out that xdg-desktop-portal-gnome makes the GNOME apps slow. Some users have reported this issue and raised this bug but it hasn't been resolved in the update. So I simply uninstalled it using this command:

    sudo apt remove xdg-desktop-portal-gnome

    NOTE: It is also recommended to install KDE packages before uninstalling so that it won't break anything in GNOME.

    You can refer to these bug reports for more insight regarding the issue:

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