xfce4-settings-helper is slow on startup

Bug #363664 reported by Sebastian Bator
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Xfce4 Session
In Progress
Unknown
xfce4-settings (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Medium
Unassigned

Bug Description

Binary package hint: xfce4-settings

Starting the xfce4-settings-helper is very slow. My eeePC 700 needed 40 seconds from Login to Desktop, after disabling the autostart of xfce4-settings-helper this changed to just over 20 seconds.

When I start xfce4-settings-helper from terminal it also needs ~15 seconds to get ready, only for the first ~5 seconds it uses the maximum CPU. I added an strace log from a start from terminal below.

The system is a jaunty Xubuntu with "xfce4-settings" 4.6.0-1ubuntu2 runing on a eeePC 700 (900 MHz Celeron) whose /home is on a SD-Card.

WORKAROUND:
1. Go to Xfc4 Settings Manager->Keyboard->Layout
2. Click 'Use system defaults'

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Sebastian Bator (eremit7) wrote :
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Gerry (gsker) wrote :

I struggled with this today. The friendly folks on irc suggested I check xfce bugzilla to see if the 4.6.1 update would fix this problem. I stumbled on this bug.
http://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5040
In it the poster discovers that the slowness problem goes away when they

1. Go to Xfc4 Settings Manager->Keyboard->Layout
2. Click 'Use system defaults'

I found that neither clearing cache nor starting with a fresh .config directory helped, but that fixed it for me.

I hope that short-circuits someone's long search.

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Sebastian Bator (eremit7) wrote :

Thank you Garry,

the workaround did it well. Now it even uses my Xmodmap.

I'll try to find out if this Bug is already fixed in xfce4.6.1 and when, how we get the fix in Ubuntu.

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Charlie Kravetz (cjkgeek) wrote :

Thanks for reporting this bug and any supporting documentation. Since this bug has enough information provided for a developer to begin work, I'm going to mark it as confirmed and let them handle it from here. Thanks for taking the time to make Ubuntu better!

Thanks for the upstream bug report number, also. I have updated the description to show the WorkAround given.

Xfce 4.6.1 will be an upgrade in Jaunty 9.04.

description: updated
affects: xfce4-settings (Ubuntu) → xfce4-session (Ubuntu)
Changed in xfce4-session (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Medium
status: New → Triaged
Changed in xfce4-session:
status: Unknown → In Progress
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Lionel Le Folgoc (mrpouit) wrote :

Fixed in karmic (xfce4-settings 4.6.1-2)

affects: xfce4-session (Ubuntu) → xfce4-settings (Ubuntu)
Changed in xfce4-settings (Ubuntu):
status: Triaged → Fix Released
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