Bug 262876

Summary:	Need an option to prioritize applications and scripts loading.
Product:	[Applications] systemsettings	Reporter:	Martín Cigorraga <msx>
Component:	kcm_autostart	Assignee:	Laurent Montel <montel>
Status:	RESOLVED INTENTIONAL
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	nate
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	4.2.0
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Arch Linux
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed/Implemented In:
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Description Martín Cigorraga 2011-01-11 18:31:12 UTC

Version:           4.2.0 (using KDE 4.5.5) 
OS:                Linux

It would be really handy if the user can set the priority the applications and scripts will be launched at login, I think something like make them wait X seconds before launch would do it preventing system overload -at login- and loading those applications and scripts in background in the order user wants.

Reproducible: Didn't try


Actual Results:  
All the applications and scripts are loaded simultaneously overloading the system and making it crawl until everything is loaded.
Also some applications that needs to start after KWin's composite is turned on like Yakuake sometimes fail to do that.

Comment 1 Martín Cigorraga 2011-01-11 18:32:03 UTC

Reproducible: ALLWAYS.

Comment 2 Nate Graham 2020-08-11 20:43:31 UTC

This seems unnecessarily fiddly IMO. If you really need this, you can feed custom-made scripts or desktop files into the KCM which do `sleep <some number>; executable name` to add the priorities and waiting times that you'd prefer.