konsole startup takes long in xfce

Tim77

Hi,

I switched from KDE to xfce. After some customizing I am really impressed. But there are several minor disadvantages I want to move out of the way. For example: I want to use konsole, because it took me a long time to configure it the way I want. But it takes up very long time to start it. Can anyone tell me why? In kde it did not take to much time.

hook · Posted: Mon Dec 08, 2003 10:45 am Post subject:

simple answer:
konsole uses QT, kde-libs and (most probably) kde-base ...which KDE also uses - so they get loaded at the KDE startup and thus konsole doesn't need them to start anew.
in the xfce case, kde-libs, kde-base and QT don't get loaded at xfce startup, since it doesn't need/use them. thus when you run konsole, it needs to start all these libs, since no other app needed them and thus didn't start them yet.
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Tim77 · Posted: Mon Dec 08, 2003 11:16 am Post subject:

Shame on me. That was easy

. Thank you. And this will also be the reason why konsole takes less time to start a 2nd time...

BTW: Is there a good term which can easily be customized and which fits better with xfce?

Chewi · Posted: Mon Dec 08, 2003 11:27 am Post subject:

I moved to XFce yesterday. I tried aterm but I didn't think much of it. I wanted to try PowerShell but it's been masked for some reason. So I stuck with GNOME Terminal. The GNOME libraries aren't as heavy as the KDE ones so it doesn't take long to start up at all.

And I was really confused about how to set the default terminal. Some people set $TERMCMD in .bash_profile but what if you use more than one shell? I don't actually but I like to do things properly. I don't think this worked for me anyway because it was trying to use GNOME Terminal in the console! I managed to do it by created this ~/.xfce4/xinitrc file.

hook · Posted: Mon Dec 08, 2003 11:32 am Post subject:

you could try Eterm - note the capital E ...you actually run it with Eterm ...but you emerge eterm (small "e")
or aterm

if you want to use Eterm you'll have to set your background with esetroot ...in other way it won't work ...so portage'll emerge some other Enlightenment/gnome stuff
i don't really remember what aterm uses for its fake-transparency, but i think it uses just the standard setbg which means, there's no need to set the background image by hand

but in any case, i like konsole more then anything else

...it's just the prettiest thing around, let's be fair.

...but still, try Eterm and aterm ...might be what you want - at home i use Eterm in fluxbox ...see the screenies (fluxbox's at the bottom) on my page: http://www.poljane.net/~hook/
...if it doesn't work try http://193.2.144.122/~hook (same page, just IP instead of the DN)
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AlyM · Posted: Mon Dec 08, 2003 1:26 pm Post subject:

I'd recommend trying xterm, it's start-up time is almost instant. Unless you need some more fnacy features/eye candy.

EDIT: xterm should already be installed btw (just in case you weren't aware), just type xterm.

Chewi · Posted: Mon Dec 08, 2003 9:06 pm Post subject:

I had serious doubts but I just tried Eterm and I love it. Thanks, hook! Looks like I'll be sticking with this.

Oh and I'm not sure what you meant about the transparency thing, it works fine for me. I think the paths for the pixmap backgrounds are messed up somehow but I don't want those anyway.

smellycheeseboy · Posted: Tue Dec 09, 2003 9:18 am Post subject:

If you want to use Konsole still you might be able to speed it up using Prelink. http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/prelink-howto.xml

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hook · Posted: Tue Dec 09, 2003 12:11 pm Post subject:

dgtaro · Posted: Thu Dec 18, 2003 4:31 am Post subject:

how do i make Nautilus startup at default in XFCE-4?

shm · Posted: Thu Dec 18, 2003 5:30 am Post subject: