Many applications (firefox, thunderbird, etc) slow to start on desktops other than Gnome
There is a bug with xdg-desktop-portal-gnome (more details here ).
Workaround for gtk-based desktops (including Xfce)
sudo pacman -Rdd xdg-desktop-portal-gnome
sudo pacman -S xdg-desktop-portal-gtk
Workaround for KDE
sudo pacman -Rdd xdg-desktop-portal-gnome
sudo pacman -S xdg-desktop-portal-kde
Workaround for Lxqt
sudo pacman -Rdd xdg-desktop-portal-gnome
sudo pacman -S xdg-desktop-portal-lxqt
Workaround for desktops using hyprland
sudo pacman -Rdd xdg-desktop-portal-gnome
sudo pacman -S xdg-desktop-portal-hyprland
Workaround for desktops using wlroots
sudo pacman -Rdd xdg-desktop-portal-gnome
sudo pacman -S xdg-desktop-portal-wlr
Next time, please use the forum’s search function.
As @Olli and @ben75 say, your question has already been asked before a gazillion times, and none of those people would have needed to ask this question in the first place if they had only read the first two posts on the latest Stable Updates
Hello community,
Another stable branch update with some usual package updates for you.
It took us almost a month to complete these updates for you. There are a lot of changes: toolchain, systemd, latest updates to KDE and Gnome and many more are included in this one. Hence we also decided to bump our release version to 23.0 and used Ultima Thule as our code name. Well it is still a Star Trek planet but it also might have some vibes form Zelda.
The install media will come later, therefore the …
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