I said I'l keep plugging away at this and I have. I discovered that the slow startup problem had something to do with X Windows being started by me with startx rather than by a display manager. Then I got looking at display managers and it seems that gdm was having some issues. Switching to lightdm solved it all. X now starts at boot and those programs start up without the long delay. I never figured out what was wrong with gdm.
Statistics: Posted by dab — 2026-01-19 17:14