Bug 262876 - Need an option to prioritize applications and scripts loading.
Summary: Need an option to prioritize applications and scripts loading.
Status: RESOLVED INTENTIONAL
Alias: None
Product: systemsettings
Classification: Applications
Component: kcm_autostart (show other bugs)
Version: 4.2.0
Platform: Arch Linux Linux
: NOR wishlist
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Laurent Montel
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Reported: 2011-01-11 18:31 UTC by Martín Cigorraga
Modified: 2020-08-11 20:43 UTC (History)
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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.