Re: 3 minute delay at login
On Thu, 23 Oct 2025 at 13:22, alain williams <addw@phcomp.co.uk> wrote:
> I am trying to track down & fix an issue that I have had for months.
> After I enter my password the screen just shows that desktop
> background/wallpaper. The mouse is there and it will move but no panels
> or icons. It remains like this for ~3 minutes and then panels, icons, ...
> all appear and I can do work.
> I can switch to a terminal (Ctrl-Shift-F1) & login but there is not
> something that is obviously waiting.
> Any clues or suggestions as to what to examine ?
> Not a huge impact since I tend to remain logged in for weeks at a time.
> But I would like to fix.
> I am running Debian 13 - Trixie using the Mate desktop. The same thing
> happened with Debian 12.
Hi, I don't know if this will do anything, but you could try updating the
icon cache.
To do that, you first need to query what GTK theme your system is using:
[david@kablamm ~]$ gsettings get org.gnome.desktop.interface gtk-theme
'Adwaita'
So on the system here, the theme is Adwaita.
To update the icon cache for the Adwaita theme, I run:
[david@kablamm ~]$ sudo gtk-update-icon-cache -f /usr/share/icons/Adwaita/
gtk-update-icon-cache: Cache file created successfully.
So you would run that command, replacing Adwaita with the name of the theme
your system is using.
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