Re: GDM3 very slow to load gnome

2012-11-20 Thread Rob Owens
On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 08:16:32AM -0500, john wrote: > On Mon, 19 Nov 2012 09:45:07 +0100 > Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > =Use another display manager ;). I still try to fix some GNOME stuff > =myself, but I guess it's not worse the effort. The best thing to do IMO > =is to be on the look-out for a co

Re: GDM3 very slow to load gnome

2012-11-19 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Mon, 2012-11-19 at 08:16 -0500, john wrote: > I run gnome3 with lightdm and openbox. It seems to work fine without > some of the bugginess of gdm3. I might add however, that this install > is running on a virtual machine (openbox) - I run it there in the hope > that it becomes useable (for me th

Re: GDM3 very slow to load gnome

2012-11-19 Thread john
On Mon, 19 Nov 2012 09:45:07 +0100 Ralf Mardorf wrote: =Use another display manager ;). I still try to fix some GNOME stuff =myself, but I guess it's not worse the effort. The best thing to do IMO =is to be on the look-out for a complete GNOME replacement. Since I'm not =blind, I simply could swi

Re: GDM3 very slow to load gnome

2012-11-19 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Use another display manager ;). I still try to fix some GNOME stuff myself, but I guess it's not worse the effort. The best thing to do IMO is to be on the look-out for a complete GNOME replacement. Since I'm not blind, I simply could switch to Xfce, but I e.g. still need Evolution to access my ema

GDM3 very slow to load gnome

2012-11-18 Thread Daniel Dalton
Hi, I've installed gnome using tasksel and I'm running debian wheezy. I've used rcconf and ticked gdm3 to start on boot. However, it takes an incredibly long time to load gnome. From the point where gdm3 is invoked to the desktop coming up (I have auto log in), is over a minute. I am using a co