Preloading dmenu

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w1n73rmu7e · Post by **w1n73rmu7e** » Thu Feb 18, 2010 2:28 am

Hi,

When I start dmenu for the first time upon boot, I have to wait a few seconds before it actually shows up. After this, even if I log out/in, dmenu loads almost immediately. Is there some way to "preload" dmenu on boot (or login) so that it will not lag the first time I start it?

Thanks in advance!

sk8harddiefast · Post by **sk8harddiefast** » Thu Feb 18, 2010 10:12 pm

i don't thing there is a way.is propably because he try to load all 2000&up possibilities of the system.so is to logical to make a little more the first time.and i dont thing that is something that you can set to init.
also plz.can you help me here: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-81 ... t-dwm.html.i am so sad

dreadlorde · Post by **dreadlorde** » Fri Feb 19, 2010 1:53 am

cat ~/.dmenu_cache

dmenu re-indexes all of your executables when there's new ones, so if you're always merging new crap, dmenu is always going to re-index it's cache.

w1n73rmu7e · Post by **w1n73rmu7e** » Fri Feb 19, 2010 2:57 am

dreadlorde wrote:cat ~/.dmenu_cache

Hmm, I tried that manually, and it didn't work (still had the lag).

sk8harddiefast · Post by **sk8harddiefast** » Fri Feb 19, 2010 10:16 am

if i edit .dmenu_cache and delete the most off packages and keep only the 15-20 i need and dont emerge anything else dmenu will re-indexes all of my executables???if not then dmenu_cashe will be too smaller so it will make less time to be loaded the first time!!!from 2000 possibilities we will go down to 20!!!maybe i am wrong but is an idea

dreadlorde · Post by **dreadlorde** » Fri Feb 19, 2010 1:28 pm

w1n73rmu7e wrote:
dreadlorde wrote:cat ~/.dmenu_cache
Hmm, I tried that manually, and it didn't work (still had the lag).

The cat'ing of ~/.dmenu_cache was to show you it was there.

If you want dmenu to stop being 'slow', stop merging tons of crap.

w1n73rmu7e · Post by **w1n73rmu7e** » Fri Feb 19, 2010 4:39 pm

dreadlorde wrote:
w1n73rmu7e wrote:
dreadlorde wrote:cat ~/.dmenu_cache
Hmm, I tried that manually, and it didn't work (still had the lag).
The cat'ing of ~/.dmenu_cache was to show you it was there.

If you want dmenu to stop being 'slow', stop merging tons of crap.

I don't think you understand. dmenu is slow the _first_ time I launch it after boot. After that, there are no problems. I just want a way to automatically launch it once at boot, so that the lag doesn't show up when I go to actually use it.

sk8harddiefast · Post by **sk8harddiefast** » Sat Feb 20, 2010 1:00 am

i understood but i dont speak english very well to explane it

try this

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cp /usr/bin/dmenu  /etc/init.d  (with this you will copy dmenu to init)
rc-update add dmenu default   (with this you will set dmenu to boot)

maybe will work.you have nothing to lose to try it.
if will not work then

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rc-update delete dmenu (will unset dmenu from boot)
rm /etc/init.d/dmemu    (will delete dmenu from init)

w1n73rmu7e · Post by **w1n73rmu7e** » Thu Feb 25, 2010 11:52 pm

Hmm, that didn't work. Any other ideas?