On Thu, Nov 22, 2012 at 12:15 AM, Daniel Dalton <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:d.dalton@iinet.net.au" target="_blank">d.dalton@iinet.net.au</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">
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I&#39;m running debian testing with gnome 3.4.<br>
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The first time I start my GUI on a particular boot be it at boot up via<br>
gdm, invoking the gdm init script manually by hand after logging into<br>
the console or by using startx it takes an incredibly long time for the<br>
gnome-shell to load and become ready.<br></blockquote></div><div><br>Yeah Gnome-shell is not quick at startup, but nowhere that slow. I&#39;m running Gnome 3.6 in Ubuntu 12.10 and it does take longer to load (more than Unity and KDE 4.9) but not by a large margin. <br>

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I have auto-log in enabled and it takes about 50-60 seconds from the point<br>
I start gdm or startx until the gui is ready to use.<br>
I&#39;m using a core I5 2.4 GHZ machine with 4 GB of ram so there is a bit<br>
of power.<br></blockquote></div></div><br><br>Are you using a machanical hard disk? If yes, that has much more to do with the speed of loading things than your CPU and RAM. Throw in a SSD in there and you&#39;ll be amazed by the difference. On my 3.5 year old Phenom II box but with a SSD, gdm + gnome-shell barely take 15 seconds to completely load. <br>

<br>Cheers<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>-- <br>Aryan<br></font></span></div>
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