Improved startkde script?

[Chris Howells]

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On kde-look.org there is an alternative startkde script which is IMHO quite 
impressive. On my P2/300 normally KDE takes about 30 seconds to start. With 
this new script, KDE startup is down to about 19 seconds which I think is 
quite impressive for 4.5 year old harware.

Even when artificially restricting the machine to use 64MB RAM via lilo 
(normally I have 192) there is still an improvement.

The script basically consists of:

#prelaunch these apps...
kdeinit_wrapper kdesktop 2> /dev/null
kdeinit_wrapper kicker 2> /dev/null
kdeinit_wrapper kwin 2> /dev/null &

LD_BIND_NOW=true kdeinit +kcminit +knotify  2> /dev/null &
kwrapper ksmserver --restore 2> /dev/null || \
xmessage -geometry 500x100 "Couldn't start ksmserver. Check your 
installation." 

#shutdown
kdeinit_shutdown
dcopserver_shutdown
artsshell -q terminate

Is there any reason why something like this should not be adopted for KDE 3.1? 
(KSplash might need a bit of hacking although I don't think it should be too 
much work...)

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Cheers, Chris Howells -- chris at chrishowells.co.uk, howells at kde.org
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