Recently, certain applications have begun taking larger than normal amounts of time to launch (from program called to window created).
Between the two applications of which I am aware, I have viewed their respective error/warning messages (on STDOUT) and found no comparable messages which could explain the phenomenon.
Two things come to mind when I ask myself: what changed? First, I think "well, I deleted some caches. Maybe they are still rebuilding their caches?" This fits with the music player (cantata
), as it needs to cache many, many album covers. It does not, however, fit with the other application, ckb
(ckb-next corsair mouse/keyboard configuration). The second thing that comes to mind is "Well, there was this big update. Maybe something changed in there?" At this time I assume that the latter is the explanation.
If it is the case that something in this update is causing the phenomenon I describe, I should note that I do not use Gnome or Budgie, but I do use GTK frameworks (both of the affected applications do as well). That said, not all GTK-integrated applications suffer. Lutris, Firefox, Thunderbird, etc. all bootstrap just fine.
Have any of the rest of you experienced things similar to this, either recently or in the past (for I understand the update may not be the root cause)? I'll appreciate any sense of "why" I can get from you folks.
Thanks,
Henry