Jim Cline

Hi Denis, I think you nailed it; I will investigate further. Thanks very much for your suggestion. regards, Jim On Mon, 30 Nov 2020, Denis Auroux wrote: I also can't imagine what it's doing during all that time, apart from a network timeout of some sort in the initialization of some library that xournal relies on. It does sound like something is messed up with your system. Do any other GTK2 or Gnome applications slow down at start (for example... gimp? eog?) I know this was about an older release...

Yes, if I do "dbus-launch xournal" or run xournal as root, there is no delay, so definitely a dbus issue. thanks again! On Mon, 30 Nov 2020, Denis Auroux wrote: I also can't imagine what it's doing during all that time, apart from a network timeout of some sort in the initialization of some library that xournal relies on. It does sound like something is messed up with your system. Do any other GTK2 or Gnome applications slow down at start (for example... gimp? eog?) I know this was about an older...

xournal extremely slow to initialize

sensors applet crashes after changing preferences

Sorry I didn't login before posting this bug before. I am still using my old version...