Hi,

on the old KDE wiki there was a tutorial to speed up the start of KDE by preloading it before login. This was useful when you did not instantly login after asked for your password. To use this, you had to install a library and and modify a config-file. Unfortunately I can not find this any more. It is not in the userbase know. It was for KDE3, so may be it wont work on KDE4, but from the idea it sounds like it could for me.
So does anyone know where the instructions are and if this still works?

Markum

The instructions would likely be located at wiki.kde.org.

bcooksley wrote:The instructions would likely be located at wiki.kde.org.

Found it, thanks. Will try later: http://wiki.kde.org/tiki-index.php?page ... ing_in_KDM

Markum

markum wrote:Found it, thanks. Will try later: http://wiki.kde.org/tiki-index.php?page ... ing_in_KDM

I have tried it, modified the instructions from the wiki. My preloadkde looks like this

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exec find /home/markum/.kde /usr/share/kde4 /usr/share/applications
   /usr/share/kde4/applnk /usr/share/kde4/mimelnk /usr/kde4/share/services
   /usr/share/kde4/servicetypes /usr/share/icons


I am not actually sure if it has a effect. A little, but not as much as it had with KDE3. So may be it does not work at all or the above preloadkde needs improvement. Is there anybody who knows more about this?

Markum