Hi!

I've written a small utility to reduce application start-up time to be ne=
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zero. (Actually I derived it from kstart)

You can get it here:

http://roland.seuhs.com/kwick.tar.gz
A simple "make" should do the trick.

The utility starts applications on an (in the final version invisible) de=
sktop=20
and moves these applications to the current desktop when needed (which is=
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almost instantaneous). It then starts another instance on the hidden desk=
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again. (currently desktop 16 is used for debugging purposes)

Usage: kwick <command>

Currently, kwick only caches apps when loaded, so the first start will no=
t be=20
instanteneous, but all subsequent starts (with the same command-string) w=
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be.

Problems/Limitations:

1. I use the same mechanism as kstart to start the apps on the hidden des=
ktop,=20
which causes a) an annoying flicker and b) and even more annoying loss of=
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focus. ksmserver uses a mechanism without these annoyances to restore the=
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session, but I couldn't figure that mechanism out, maybe somebody can hel=
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on this. If this issue isn't solved, this utility won't be of any real us=
e.

2. ksmserver may restore cached windows. I'm not sure what ksmserver does=
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windows on hidden desktops, though.

Planned features:

- Smart memory detection (cache apps only if enough RAM is available)
- Cache more than one instance of certain apps
- configure apps which are cached at startup
- GUI for configuration

Please tell me what you think.

Roland

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As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error.
                -- Weisert


 
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