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Idea
#3974: Preload apps in login screen
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Written by xenoky the 9 Mar 08 at 11:54.
Category: Accessibility.
Related to:
Nothing/Others.
Status: New
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Description
When i login for the first time my ubuntu takes 80 sec to start up.
If i press ctrl-alt-backspace and i login again it takes about 15 sec.
Many times i turn on my pc and then after i come back to login, but there is another 80 sec i have to wait to start working.
So there isnt a way to preload application during the login screen???
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jonathan324 wrote on the 9 Mar 08 at 13:57
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Please make a gui for this, so you can choose some apps to preload.
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vicho wrote on the 9 Mar 08 at 15:18
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lol, what's that wreck you're running Ubuntu on?! My system loads to login screen from cold boot for around 90 sec (Configuration: AMD Duron @ 1,6 GHz, 256 RAM, GeForce FX 5500)
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vicho wrote on the 9 Mar 08 at 15:19
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oops, not to login screen, to desktop ;)
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xenoky wrote on the 9 Mar 08 at 19:19
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@vicho:
my machine is good enough (intel core duo 2 @2ghz 2GB RAM) but i have a lot of process starting with my session...
When i had a fresh installation was different...
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kenneth.venken wrote on the 9 Mar 08 at 19:32
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how about preload?
sudo apt-get install preload
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xenoky wrote on the 9 Mar 08 at 21:00
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@kenneth.venken
it seems to be a young project, i don't find any documentation about it, but i'am going to try it, i have a lot of unused ram
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vanden9 wrote on the 9 Mar 08 at 21:19
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I think open suse does this out of the box..
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fabioamd87 wrote on the 9 Mar 08 at 23:13
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impossible, different user have different configuration of autostarted application
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xenoky wrote on the 9 Mar 08 at 23:19
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@fabioamd87
many pc, like mine, are used mainly from only one user
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choad wrote on the 25 Mar 08 at 00:49
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@fabioamd87
yeah... and they all use the same apps. gnome-panel is an app, compiz is an app, nautilus (desktop) etc. etc.
even more "traditional" apps like firefox, evolution, pidgin etc. are more than likely to be used by most users.
it would be relatively simple to keep track of the apps that always get launched when you log in. right at the top of the list would be all the basic desktop stuff, so that would get pre-loaded first at the login screen. then things like firefox and pidgin would be the next most commonly launched things
i think this is a really *really* good idea and it is NOT a duplicate of that generic wishy washy "make it faster" bug. this is a specific idea that would work.
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johno wrote on the 2 Apr 08 at 02:49
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Why would you not do this? Once booted to the login screen, it isn't doing anything, so it might as well start pre-loading the library and application images into memory cache. If the user uses that environment, then it won't need to read from disk, and if its a different one, then it will just get purged out of cache eventually.
Perhaps to add more value, open up a login window/screen right at the start of the boot process, and allow the user to ender the authentication credentials straight away while the boot process continues.
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