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From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] pre-starting KDE libs
Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2009 15:53:48 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200904211553.48888.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090420231207.GD7188@ca.inter.net>

On Tuesday 21 April 2009 01:12:07 Philip Webb wrote:
> 090420 Philip Webb wrote:
> > Can anyone tell me the command to pre-start KDE libs with another desktop
> > ? Htop reveals that 'konsole' -- the 1st app I started after Fluxbox --
> > caused the following processes to start & remain running :
> >
> >   3863 kdeinit running ...
> >   3866 dcopserver [kdeinit] --nosid --suicide
> >   3868 klauncher [kdeinit] --new-startup
> >   3870 kded [kdeinit] --new-startup
> >
> > So it looks as if the needed command is 'kdeinit'.
>
> I added 'kdeinit &' to  ~/.xinitrc  & it made a small difference :
> Konsole starts  3 s  sooner (wry smile).  Also, that's only after a boot:
> otherwise, the KDE libs stay in memory when the WM terminates
> & are instantly reloaded when Konsole asks for them.

Those 3 seconds could be vital. If you need to ssh into the control machine 
for a nuclear power station and shut down the reactor, those 3 seconds could 
be the difference between salvation and TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt(tm)....


-- 
alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com



      reply	other threads:[~2009-04-21 13:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-04-20 14:25 [gentoo-user] pre-starting KDE libs Philip Webb
2009-04-20 14:57 ` Alan McKinnon
2009-04-20 19:15   ` Philip Webb
2009-04-20 23:12     ` Philip Webb
2009-04-21 13:53       ` Alan McKinnon [this message]

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