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On kde-look.org there is an alternative startkde script which is IMHO quite=
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impressive. On my P2/300 normally KDE takes about 30 seconds to start. With=
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this new script, KDE startup is down to about 19 seconds which I think is=20
quite impressive for 4.5 year old harware.

Even when artificially restricting the machine to use 64MB RAM via lilo=20
(normally I have 192) there is still an improvement.

The script basically consists of:

#prelaunch these apps...
kdeinit_wrapper kdesktop 2> /dev/null
kdeinit_wrapper kicker 2> /dev/null
kdeinit_wrapper kwin 2> /dev/null &

LD_BIND_NOW=3Dtrue kdeinit +kcminit +knotify  2> /dev/null &
kwrapper ksmserver --restore 2> /dev/null || \
xmessage -geometry 500x100 "Couldn't start ksmserver. Check your=20
installation."=20

#shutdown
kdeinit_shutdown
dcopserver_shutdown
artsshell -q terminate

Is there any reason why something like this should not be adopted for KDE 3=
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(KSplash might need a bit of hacking although I don't think it should be to=
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much work...)

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Cheers, Chris Howells -- chris@chrishowells.co.uk, howells@kde.org
Web: http://chrishowells.co.uk, PGP key: http://chrishowells.co.uk/pgp.txt
KDE: http://www.koffice.org, http://edu.kde.org, http://usability.kde.org

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