Hello everyone!
I’m using Manjaro KDE and after entering my password first I have to wait several seconds (like 10 or so) then I see a black screen than Yakukake is displayed for several seconds (again 10 or so) then the background image appears (the bing daily wallpaper is set up to be used) then my widgets appear then the bottom bar (dunno what’s it called) appears then the status bar (well where things like network connection, notifications, languages, etc. reside) appears on the LEFT side of that bar then these icons move to the RIGHT and the pinned application icons and the Application Launcher appears on the LEFT as it should. I didn’t used to see this process so it was much faster or it didn’t occur at all. Except that I really don’t think I should be waiting this much for boot with an i5 9600K and 32 GB RAM even with a HDD plus it used to be faster.
The output of systemd-analyze:
Startup finished in 15.053s (firmware) + 2.902s (loader) + 2.247s (kernel) + 14.199s (userspace) = 34.403s
graphical.target reached after 13.376s in userspace
Output of systemd-analyze critical-chain:
The time when unit became active or started is printed after the “@” character.
The time the unit took to start is printed after the “+” character.
Hi, thank you for your contribution. I don’t have any spare ssds, and I don’t await anything like 3 sec boot, but I remember having nearly instant desktop loads after the splash screen after entering my password at login and it’s close to 10 seconds now (probably more). That’s why I suspect something’s wrong. I have to mention that my /home is on a separate partition and the OS has been reinstalled I think twice without wiping the /home partition. The long load times were present even before the reinstalls, I’m like 90% sure about that.
So I’ve created a new user and set up the Desktop as close to my original user’s as possible. Without the widgets and the daily wallpaper from bing I didn’t see the system tray appear on the left then after a few seconds pop to the right, it seemed as it appeared on the right right away. With all the widgets I did see the system tray appear on the left then pop to the right BUT it was like a blink of an eye compared to the time on my original account, where I literally see how the notification about network connection appears then it freezes (the filling circle around the closing x [the countdown until the notification disappears] just stops filling up), then everything pops back to it’s place. I haven’t timed it actually, but it seems it’s faster to log in to the newly created account but just by several seconds.
Hope this helped somewhat.
Oh and one more thing. After I’ve bought my video card I used the system as it was for a while (I’ve had an AMD video card for a short amount of time, then I’ve removed it and used the integrated graphics in my CPU, then installed the Nvidia card and the nvidia drivers and I don’t remember removing any other driver whatsoever), then funny things started to happen with the system, graphics-wise mostly, so I’ve decided to reinstall it. Again I’m not a 100% sure, but it comes back to me like, I begun to have these problems after that reinstall.
Hi there, I’m here to report, that another strange thing happened just now. So first, I’ve got an audio-video receiver and amplifier, that sometimes won’t show any video, and playing with selecting different inputs, turning the TV off/on, turning the amplifier off/on, unplugging and plugging the HDMI cables back in would solve that, but sometimes I have to restart the computer. This was the case today and I choose the reset button on the computer case. Afterwards I’ve typed my password in, pressed enter and now the screen didn’t turn black, but the login screen remained there, then Yakuake appeared and after several seconds my, desktop showed up and the popping thing with the system tray happened, but it was probably as fast as on the other user account I’ve created. BUT Yakuake and Konsole are now not transparent (I mean the background) and in the settings at Color Scheme and font, it says “This color scheme uses a transparent background which does not appear to be supported on your desktop”. I’ve had an update yesterday, but only pamac related programs have been updated (pamac-cli, pamac, … can’t remember all of them), so I don’t think that update changed something, but I was using the transparent backgrounds before I turned my PC off yesterday evening. I don’t know whether this adds some relevant information, but I wanted you to know about the situation.
EDIT1:
I’ve googled a bit and I’ve had to turn the OpenGL detection on (it was written in the settings, that it caused crashes in KWin, hence it’s been turned off), and I’ve set the compositor to OpenGL 3.1, now the transparency is back. So i’m thinking, that actually when I haven’t seen anything on the screen (before resetting the PC) It might have been caused by some crash in the windowing system, but I’m still more inclined to the thought that amplifier was the culprit before.
Well, first of all, pressing the reset button to reboot the PC is a very bad habit. Why did you do that? You can corrupt partition data doing that. When you reboot or turn your PC off, the system always makes sure data is consistent. When you press the reset button you just cut the power off suddenly. Don’t do that unless you really can’t reboot or turn off your system properly. To make things worse, you have an HDD and you probably have default cache settings, which increases the amount of data which is delayed to be written to disk.
Regarding OpenGL, you did alright. I have no idea why it was deactivated, but, nowadays, not having graphical acceleration on a relatively modern PC is like going back 20 years.
Regarding the widgets, the wallpaper and etc., keep in mind the most stuff you have loading at boot, the longer it will take, and you have an HDD, which takes even longer.
Yeah I’ve had no visuals from the PC as I’ve mentioned, so either holding the power button or pressing the reset button remained as least drastic options, or at least nothing else came to my mind.
Thank you.