Tip: Greatly Improve Plasma (KDE) Wayland Startup Time

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Hi, using Plasma wayland, I found that the startup time for plasma desktop environment was about 25 seconds. Upon testing Plasma X11 session as opposed to wayland session, plasma X11 started in a few seconds. I searched and discovered a tip that if the splash screen is disabled, plasma wayland also starts in just a few seconds. and it worked! So, if you experience this, simply use plasma system settings → Colors and Themes → Splash Screen and select None (can also search for splash in the settings dialog).

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=482082

Hope helpful!

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I’m just giggling at this, because splash screens used to be there to “hide” your system grinding as it started up multiple processes and prepared the desktop. They’re kind of moot now! Good catch!

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It’s pretty much just optional eye-candy. In my case it’s perhaps 5 seconds, that I won’t miss either way.

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