[plug] [slightly OT] starting up kde faster?

[Chris McCormick]

On Tue, 16 Apr 2002 13:03:36 +0800
Bernard Blackham <bernard at blackham.com.au> wrote:

> Plug,
> 
> Does anybody have any tips for making KDE 2.2 start faster? It
> currently takes 20-30 seconds on my PIII 900Mhzw/256MB RAM laptop.
> Gnome was faster, but still I'd like my laptop to be up and running
> in well under a minute, it's currently taking 80-90 seconds:
>   30 seconds for BIOS, nothing I can do. ugh.
>   25 seconds for kernel+some services
>   30 seconds or so for X + KDE.

My PC is blackbox + GTK = 22 seconds from 'on' to login prompt, 2 seconds from login to complete desktop.

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Chris

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