Sluggish program startup since last update

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Interesting, I have the same dbux-proxy package. On my system it seems like it’s more embedded and harder to remove though. Not sure if going through with this will end up pruning 50% of my install.

$ pacman -Q | grep dbus
dbus 1.12.20-1
dbus-glib 0.112-1
dbus-python 1.2.16-4
kdbusaddons 5.82.0-1
lib32-dbus 1.12.20-1
lib32-dbus-glib 0.112-1
lib32-libdbusmenu-glib 16.04.0-4
lib32-libdbusmenu-gtk2 16.04.0-4
libdbusmenu-glib 16.04.0-4
libdbusmenu-gtk2 16.04.0-4
libdbusmenu-gtk3 16.04.0-4
libdbusmenu-qt5 0.9.3+16.04.20160218-5
xdg-dbus-proxy 0.1.2-3
[usr@laptop ~]$ sudo pacman -Rns xdg-dbus-proxy
checking dependencies...
error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies)
:: removing xdg-dbus-proxy breaks dependency 'xdg-dbus-proxy' required by flatpak
:: removing xdg-dbus-proxy breaks dependency 'xdg-dbus-proxy' required by webkit2gtk
[usr@laptop ~]$ sudo pacman -Rns flatpak webkit2gtk
checking dependencies...
error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies)
:: removing webkit2gtk breaks dependency 'webkit2gtk' required by gufw
:: removing flatpak breaks dependency 'flatpak' required by pamac-flatpak-plugin
:: removing webkit2gtk breaks dependency 'webkit2gtk' required by yelp
:: removing webkit2gtk breaks dependency 'webkit2gtk' required by zenity

:: removing yelp breaks dependency 'yelp' required by pulseeffects
:: removing zenity breaks dependency 'zenity' required by steam-manjaro
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Yeah as do I. I doubt it’s the issue because it seems pretty core. I wonder if removing flatpak might help because that’s what the guy did.

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Okay, after removing flatpak and restarting it’s noticeably faster! Still not how it once was though, but it cut the loading time in half I think.

45

That’s good, sadly I don’t understand why, so I think I surpassed my usefulness awhile ago.

The only other thing I saw was the regeneration of font caches. If it can’t find the cache it might do it every load… the strace logs from before doesn’t show it accessing tons of font files does it?

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there’s 3090 occurences of “open”, and 1363 for “cache”

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So i’ve uninstalled xdg-dbus-proxy by uninstalling steam and there’s no improvement to be had… ANy other ideas?