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elj40

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Desktop icons slow to appear

Every time I restart my computer, my desktop loads and I am able to run programs, but my desktop icons do not appear.
If I open thunar they appear immediately as thunar opens, otherwise it takes about 30 seconds for them to load.

I have tried:
- Slow startup [solved] https://forum.xfce.org/viewtopic.php?id=5174 where I deleted `~/.cache/sessions` and unchecked the box on next reboot
- running

/usr/bin/xfdesktop

on startup using "Session and Startup" manager

Xfce version: 4.18
Distro: Debian 13
I still get the situation as described above

With journalctl I noticed that desktop (not icons) and ability to use stuff like terminal is possible at 23:55:31,
but desktop icons only appear at 23:55:54
journalctl logs:

Mar 22 23:55:30 eli-debian dbus-daemon[1113]: [session uid=1000 pid=1113] Activating via systemd: service n>
Mar 22 23:55:30 eli-debian systemd[1088]: Starting dconf.service - User preferences database...
Mar 22 23:55:30 eli-debian dbus-daemon[1113]: [session uid=1000 pid=1113] Successfully activated service 'c>
Mar 22 23:55:30 eli-debian systemd[1088]: Started dconf.service - User preferences database.
Mar 22 23:55:30 eli-debian dbus-daemon[1113]: [session uid=1000 pid=1113] Activating via systemd: service n>
Mar 22 23:55:30 eli-debian systemd[1088]: Starting gvfs-udisks2-volume-monitor.service - Virtual filesystem>
Mar 22 23:55:30 eli-debian dbus-daemon[1113]: [session uid=1000 pid=1113] Activating via systemd: service n>
Mar 22 23:55:30 eli-debian systemd[1088]: Starting obex.service - Bluetooth OBEX service...
Mar 22 23:55:30 eli-debian obexd[1542]: OBEX daemon 5.66
Mar 22 23:55:30 eli-debian dbus-daemon[1113]: [session uid=1000 pid=1113] Successfully activated service 'o>
Mar 22 23:55:30 eli-debian systemd[1088]: Started obex.service - Bluetooth OBEX service.
Mar 22 23:55:31 eli-debian pkexec[1674]: pam_unix(polkit-1:session): session opened for user root(uid=0) by>
Mar 22 23:55:31 eli-debian pkexec[1685]: pam_unix(polkit-1:session): session opened for user root(uid=0) by>
Mar 22 23:55:54 eli-debian gvfs-udisks2-vo[1456]: monitor says it's not supported
Mar 22 23:55:54 eli-debian dbus-daemon[1113]: [session uid=1000 pid=1113] Successfully activated service 'o>
Mar 22 23:55:54 eli-debian systemd[1088]: Started gvfs-udisks2-volume-monitor.service - Virtual filesystem >
Mar 22 23:55:54 eli-debian gvfs-udisks2-vo[1456]: monitor says it's not supported
Mar 22 23:55:54 eli-debian tumblerd[1403]: remote volume monitor with dbus name org.gtk.vfs.UDisks2VolumeMo>
Mar 22 23:55:54 eli-debian dbus-daemon[1113]: [session uid=1000 pid=1113] Activating via systemd: service n>
Mar 22 23:55:54 eli-debian systemd[1088]: Starting gvfs-gphoto2-volume-monitor.service - Virtual filesystem>
Mar 22 23:55:54 eli-debian gvfs-udisks2-vo[1456]: monitor says it's not supported
Mar 22 23:55:54 eli-debian dbus-daemon[1113]: [session uid=1000 pid=1113] Successfully activated service 'o>
Mar 22 23:55:54 eli-debian systemd[1088]: Started gvfs-gphoto2-volume-monitor.service - Virtual filesystem >
Mar 22 23:55:54 eli-debian dbus-daemon[1113]: [session uid=1000 pid=1113] Activating via systemd: service n>
Mar 22 23:55:54 eli-debian systemd[1088]: Starting gvfs-mtp-volume-monitor.service - Virtual filesystem ser>
Mar 22 23:55:54 eli-debian dbus-daemon[1113]: [session uid=1000 pid=1113] Successfully activated service 'o>
Mar 22 23:55:54 eli-debian systemd[1088]: Started gvfs-mtp-volume-monitor.service - Virtual filesystem serv>
Mar 22 23:55:54 eli-debian dbus-daemon[1113]: [session uid=1000 pid=1113] Activating via systemd: service n>
Mar 22 23:55:54 eli-debian systemd[1088]: Starting gvfs-afc-volume-monitor.service - Virtual filesystem ser

ChatGPT has suggest messing with services but I dont trust that thing

eriefisher

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From: ON, Canada

Registered: 2008-10-25

Posts: 917

Re: Desktop icons slow to appear

If your actually running Debian 13 then your Xfce4 version should be 4.20. Can you double check?

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elj40

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Registered: Yesterday

Posts: 3

Re: Desktop icons slow to appear

Distro:

$ cat /etc/os-release 
PRETTY_NAME="Debian GNU/Linux 13 (trixie)"
NAME="Debian GNU/Linux"
VERSION_ID="13"
VERSION="13 (trixie)"
VERSION_CODENAME=trixie
DEBIAN_VERSION_FULL=13.4
ID=debian

xfce4 version:

$ xfce4-about --version
xfce4-about 4.18.2 (Xfce 4.18)

Copyright (c) 2008-2023
	The Xfce development team. All rights reserved.

Please report bugs to <https://gitlab.xfce.org/xfce/libxfce4ui/-/issues>.

eriefisher

Wanderer

From: ON, Canada

Registered: 2008-10-25

Posts: 917

Re: Desktop icons slow to appear

I'm not sure what happened or how you got to where you are but Trixie should definitely have Xfce4 4.20.

https://packages.debian.org/trixie/xfce/

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