Hi there,
thanks a lot.
Solved with installing xdg-desktop-portal-gnome and
xdg-desktop-portal-gtk from sid.
Applications start smooth and the dark mode is back...
Before upgrading those two packages the bug appeared while using both
mentioned sessions with having the nvidia-driver package installed...
Thanks again and best regards,
Am 16.02.25 um 23:30 schrieb msp:
Hi Simon,
thanks, yes, this is the solution! -- double-yes, actually.
Some details below:
On Sun, Feb 16, 2025 at 07:02:53PM +0000, Simon McVittie wrote:
On Sat, 15 Feb 2025 at 14:59:52 +0100, msp wrote:
When libgtk-4-1:amd64 is installed in version 4.17.4+ds-4, starting any
programs depending on this package takes unusually long (up to minutes),
sometimes causing the program to be unusable.
On Sun, 16 Feb 2025 at 19:41:37 +0100, Markus Steinko wrote:
I am facing the same bug on a Debian testing system, running Gnome.
Many applications are just reacting very slow. Like gnome-terminal,
gnome-settings, gnome-tweaks and the extension-manager.
Are you perhaps both using the "GNOME on Xorg" session mode, instead of
the default "GNOME" session which is GNOME in Wayland mode?
yes indeed, I use X11 (configured by setting WaylandEnable=false in
/etc/gdm3/daemon.conf - because 'barrier' misbehaved last time I tried).
Anyway: switching to wayland somewhat improves the situation, but not fully:
The first (gtk/gnome?) program starting takes "ages" (30 s?) to
start, other programs started successively do so in normal time.
I tried this with gnome-terminal and, alternatively, libreoffice
(however, I did not switch off signal auto-starting).
This was before I did the upgrade suggested below (and confirmed by
downgrading again to make sure).
Please try with xdg-desktop-gnome 47.2-2, which I recently uploaded to
unstable. That fixes an initialization problem with GTK 4.17.x which can
cause this symptom (#1096094).
Yes, upgrading xdg-desktop-portal-gnome (I guess you meant that) and
xdg-desktop-portal-gtk to 1.15.2-2 fully resolves the problem, both
with x11 and with wayland.
I can confirm that tbe behaviour was exactly as described in #1096094
(closing every instance and re-opening), although I did not iterate
through all combinations (x11/wayland, closing all instances, ...)
Thank you once more for having resolved this!
best,
msp
If that doesn't resolve the problem, please check the system log (systemd
Journal) for any error messages or crashes that appear there when you
log in, start one of the slow applications, and wait for it to start.
Relevant documentation:
https://manpages.debian.org/testing/systemd/journalctl.1.en.html
Also some are loosing their dark-mode and turn back to light mode
This is a less severe symptom than extremely slow startup, and might
not be closely related. If updating packages does not resolve that,
please report it as a separate bug, with details of some affected apps
and any error messages that appear in the systemd Journal.
smcv
