[ubuntu-in] Reducing number of start up apps

[Onkar Shinde]

On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 8:29 AM, Ramnarayan.K <ramnarayan.k at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi
>
> My start up after login is really slow,
>
> seems like tonnes of apps are all starting up. Including beagle, which does
> it standard indexing.

Which version of Ubuntu are you using? Beagle is not default indexer
for at least a year. The default is now tracker and it's performance
is far better than beagle.

>
> Is there a way that  i can find and stop unnecessary apps from starting at
> login time
>
> I tried to check system->preferrences -> start up app preferences
>
> and made some changes there but am afraid to make more changes in case
> something happens to the system and it breaks (normally i would have risked
> it but my work is "mission critical and cannot afford to have my machine go
> down just yet even for a short while)
>
> Second - some apps - seem to make themselves permanently resident in the
> system tray even though i don't want them there - like rythm box, ktimer
> etc. Some of them can be configured to not appear on the system tray but
> others don't have any option.
>
> So any ideas on what i can do to
> 1. Stop such apps at start up
> 2. Stop apps from coming on the system tray without my specifying
> 3. Optimize login speed

As per my observation after login till show of complete desktop, what
takes most time is loading of gnome-panel including various applets.
And IIRC, the clock applet is slowest of them probably because of the
integrated calendar component. You may try removing clock applet from
panel and see if that reduces the time.


Onkar