[Solved] xfce hangs before performing autostart

eugene386 · 2012-12-15 11:30:46

Edit (2012-12-17) : I will try to reformulate my question:

When I start xfce, the system hangs for ca. 15 secondes during the "Starting nautilus" phase, just before "Performing Autostart". Yet I deleted nautilus a few weeks ago. Any idea of what I could do so xfce doesn't try to start nautilus at every start? Thanks in advance!

Original post:

Hi

I am a newbie running xfce 4.6.2 on Debian Squeeze 6.0.6, and I wonder what happens when you start xfce and the components are loaded, while the splash screen is shown. (During what I improperly call the 'splash screen phase'...)

In my case, I had the bad idea of installing nautilus (via apt-get). Then I removed it, but since, every time I start xfce, the xfce splash screens holds during the step "Starting nautilus". Nothing happens during ca. 15 seconds and then the splash screens disappears and xfce works correctly.

I imagine that there should be a config file somewhere, where the different components to load with xfce are enumerated, and where I could remove the "nautilus" entry. Could you help me?

Thanks in advance!

Last edited by eugene386 (2012-12-17 19:31:35)

Sideburns · 2012-12-17 07:29:05

On the Preference Menu, go to Sessions and Startup and select the Application Autostart tab. Uncheck Nautilus and close the control panel.

eugene386 · 2012-12-17 08:30:06

Edit (2012-12-17):

In fact xfce tries to start nautilus before performing the autostart.

Original answer:

Unfortunately, nautilus doesn't appear in the list. Isn't there another "autostart" config file ? I mean, something that xfce runs before this list?

Also, in the Application Autostart tab, it is written that "Below is the [autostart list], in addition to the applications that were saved when you logged out last time". So I looked for nautilus in htop, but I didn't find it. It seems that nautilus has really been deleted, but somehow it still remains somewhere in some xfce config file...

Last edited by eugene386 (2012-12-17 19:33:35)

jeromeg · 2012-12-19 08:02:15

Try to see if there is something about nautilus in ~/.cache/sessions/.

eugene386 · 2012-12-21 15:30:10

Edit (2012-12-27):

Well, it is very strange, but I kept deleting ~/.cache/sessions/xfce4-session-hostname* again and again, and eventually, it worked...

Original post:

Indeed, I found several occurrences of nautilus in ~/.cache/sessions.

~/.cache/sessions/xfce4-session-hostname:0 (7 first lines):

[Session: Default]
Client0_ClientId=25146784c-26ca-4a2b-88d4-1c5af7e4302c
Client0_Hostname=local/hostname
Client0_CloneCommand=nautilus
Client0_DiscardCommand=/bin/rm,-rf,/home/user/.config/session-state/nautilus-1353581915.state
Client0_Program=nautilus
Client0_RestartCommand=nautilus,--sm-client-id,25146784c-26ca-4a2b-88d4-1c5af7e4302c,--sm-client-state-file,/home/user/.config/session-state/nautilus-1353581915.state

In the meantime, I found a post with a similar problem: http://forum.xfce.org/viewtopic.php?id=5641

But in my case, even though I have already deleted xfce4-session-hostname several times, it keeps coming back with nautilus in. As you can see, four different variables do mention nautilus: Client0_CloneCommand, Client0_DiscardCommand, Client0_Program and Client0_RestartCommand.

Last edited by eugene386 (2012-12-27 17:27:33)

Xfce Forum

Sub domains

#1 2012-12-15 11:30:46

[Solved] xfce hangs before performing autostart

#2 2012-12-17 07:29:05

Re: [Solved] xfce hangs before performing autostart

#3 2012-12-17 08:30:06

Re: [Solved] xfce hangs before performing autostart

#4 2012-12-19 08:02:15

Re: [Solved] xfce hangs before performing autostart

#5 2012-12-21 15:30:10

Re: [Solved] xfce hangs before performing autostart

Board footer