After updating my system about two weeks ago, I noticed certain GTK programs such as Nautilus, file-roller, and the calculator along with others like Firefox and Thunderbird have been slow to start (for example, the calculator takes upwards of 25 seconds to start), and I can’t figure out why. I assu…

Sounds like this might be a xdg-desktop-portal performance issue that many are hitting. See: [image] GTK apps take long time to launch in wayland Plasma I have seen reports that xdg-desktop-portal-gnome is causing problems - do you have it installed? [im…

That did the trick! Is there a bug tracker issue or forum post that goes over why this issue is happening? I’ve never had an issue like this before.

[image] fffreddy: Is there a bug tracker issue or forum post that goes over why this issue is happening? [Bug]: Flatpak causes other non-flatpak apps to start up really slow opened 10:12PM - 11 May 23 UTC (UTC) …

[image] anon11595408: it happens on both, Gnome and KDE If I am not mistaken, all the reported cases on the forum have been about non-GNOME DE:s. That’s what it says in the Gitlab’s link posted as well. No issues with slow launch of applications on my end with GNOME, flatpak and xdg-desktop…

[image] pebcak: No issues with slow launch of applications on my end with GNOME, flatpak and xdg-desktop-portal-gnome. Good for you. :heart:

[image] anon11595408: [image] pebcak: No issues with slow launch of applications on my end with GNOME, flatpak and xdg-desktop-portal-gnome. Good for you. :heart: That is not the relevant part of my post but this is: [image] pebcak: [image] anon11595408: it happens on both, Gn…

[image] pebcak: all the reported cases on the forum have been about non-GNOME DE:s. Sorry if I don’t entertain an all-seeing-eye. It did happen to me on KDE and I was only trying to be helpful to the many… :wink:

[image] anon11595408: I was only trying to be helpful to the many… :wink: That’s surely very appreciated. But this issue seems to hit non-GNOME DE:s as in your case in KDE. So your assertion that: [image] anon11595408: it can happen on both, Gnome and KDE, is only partially true. Jus…

[image] pebcak: So your assertion that: [image] anon11595408: it can happen on both, Gnome and KDE, is only partially true. Just wanted to point that out. I stand corrected, as I’m not using Gnome currently at all! It happened to me on Budgie, too… :blush:

Certain programs are slow to start after a big update (Budgie)

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andrewb May 22, 2023, 6:36am 2

Sounds like this might be a xdg-desktop-portal performance issue that many are hitting. See: