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Marky
Asked: 2012-01-11 01:56:57 +0800 CST

Tool to know what is making the desktop load longer than usual

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Is there such a tool?

My desktop as of late is taking longer to load than usual. I'd say it takes more than 20 seconds from GDM login until I see the desktop. Aside from disabling all app-indicators and testing it manually one by one, what else should be done? The only indicator I remember activating lately was bluetooth and I have already disabled it from Startup Applications. No improvement.

I know of bootchart, but I don't really have a problem with boot. It is only after I login that the issue occurs. I'm on Natty Narwhal.

*Updating this thread.... The issue seems to have fixed itself and I did not even do anything. It is really weird. I guess this is how Gnome works (and talk about not recognizing your theme and reverting to Windows 95-like look. How about that?). I have been a long time KDE user and I never encountered issues like this one. The KDE then may have booted into the desktop longer (from KDM) but at least I know it was consistent.

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  1. (The problem was solved by the OP)

    The issue seems to have fixed itself and I did not even do anything. It is really weird. I guess this is how Gnome works (and talk about not recognizing your theme and reverting to Windows 95-like look. How about that?). I have been a long time KDE user and I never encountered issues like this one. The KDE then may have booted into the desktop longer (from KDM) but at least I know it was consistent.

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  2. You can see the booting process in command line style. Edit /etc/default/grub

    sudo gedit /etc/default/grub

    Un-comment the line:

    GRUB_TERMINAL=console

    Now the update the grub

    sudo update-grub

    Restart your system. Next boot it will show all process loading during boot. So you can easily determine which program takes long time to load.

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