[SOLVED] GIMP suddenly started taking 30-40 seconds to start

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[SOLVED] GIMP suddenly started taking 30-40 seconds to start

Postby canadaist » Oct 22nd, '18, 20:05

I have a fully up to date Mageia installation, with GIMP 2.8.22.
I use the Plasma config app to set gtk programs to Breeze.

It has, over the last few days started taking not one or two seconds to start up, but a half minute, even to show the starting logo. It may have begun longer ago, I might not have started the program until recently.

I started it on the command line and got these:
(gimp:3447): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: g_object_set_is_valid_property: object class 'GeglConfig' has no property named 'cache-size'

(gimp:3447): LibGimpBase-WARNING **: gimp: gimp_wire_read(): error

On running it from CLI I also got "can't find adwaita theme" and I installed that, no change to start time, nor look of GIMP, and nowhere do I have adwaita set as a theme that I know of.

I have not changed the hardware, it has been running great.
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Re: GIMP suddenly started taking 30-40 seconds to start

Postby JoesCat » Oct 23rd, '18, 06:24

googling your error message shows several related problems on different forums.
The one that makes most sense is"theme" missing one or more icons/pieces/etc.
https://askubuntu.com/questions/931640/ ... ls-to-open.
Try another theme other than breeze.
If it works better, then breeze may need some extra pieces/icons/etc (and worth reporting so it could be improved).
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Re: GIMP suddenly started taking 30-40 seconds to start

Postby canadaist » Oct 25th, '18, 23:24

Thank you very much for your thoughts and response.

I tried changing themes, changed Plasma's GTK themes, deleted home's /.gimp-2.8, reinstalled gimp without addons, no change to start time.

Again, this is new, I may have even mentioned how fast gimp started after one recent(2018) kernel.

There seems no other drawbacks to this. GIMP runs fine, once opened.
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Re: GIMP suddenly started taking 30-40 seconds to start

Postby canadaist » Oct 27th, '18, 15:04

Update: I have found that gimp now also has that delay when trying to open a new image in gimp, AND it opens a new window, eventually, and not a new tab.
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Re: [SOLVED] GIMP suddenly started taking 30-40 seconds to s

Postby canadaist » Oct 28th, '18, 14:53

Yesterday's kernel solved the issue. GIMP starts, from click to open is now less than a second.
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