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LSLSLS

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Registered: 2025-11-17

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Measuring the startup time of a plain text document in Xfce

I'm looking for someone who can make a 120 FPS recording of an empty text document being opened (preferably with gedit) while a stopwatch is running.

The reason I can't do it myself is because I'm not using Xfce and it would be a hassle to me to install it just for the purpose of this test.

For more information, please see this page: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=512007

Last edited by LSLSLS (2025-11-17 16:09:16)

CwF

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Registered: 2018-01-28

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Re: Measuring the startup time of a plain text document in Xfce

I'm not one to worry about such things, and the results are measuring many variables which of course are not constant across examples.

Opening a fresh empty file in /usr/local/bin and pasting a script from the clipboard happens more or less immediately for me. This is a in a vm accessed remotely across a network with a paste from separate vm...and it's effectively immediate even with all that network latency.

I would expect timings all from the same computer, only, to be relevant.

LSLSLS

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Registered: 2025-11-17

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Re: Measuring the startup time of a plain text document in Xfce

I just ran the test in a VM running Xfce and it was slow as hell, but then again, so was everything I was doing in the VM.
FWIW, I clocked it at 0.467s.

CwF

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Re: Measuring the startup time of a plain text document in Xfce

$  time mousepad new.txt

real	0m0.103s
user	0m0.043s
sys	0m0.034s

LSLSLS

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Registered: 2025-11-17

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Re: Measuring the startup time of a plain text document in Xfce

$  time mousepad new.txt

real	0m0.103s
user	0m0.043s
sys	0m0.034s

Thank you, but as explained in the bug report, the time command doesn't accurately show the time it takes for the window to open, which is why I need a recording.
If you need help setting up OBS, let me know.