I'm using Debian jessie(testing) and I'm running i3 version 4.6. Everything i3 is blazing fast(less then a second probably in milliseconds) and I love it except i3-dmenu-desktop witch takes a solid second or two to load. Thanks in advance.
Get an SSD for faster random file access. If you already have one, strace i3-dmenu-desktop to find out where it’s spending its time. Maybe there is a directly with a lot of .desktop files on your machine.
There also is https://github.com/enkore/j4-dmenu-de..., which is written in C++ and should be a lot faster.
Thanks for the quick answer.
Why don't you replace i3-dmenu-desktop with j4-dmenu-desktop in the main project?
I decided to run find / -name "*.desktop" and I found a directory /usr/share/app-install/desktop full of desktop files of applications that I don't have installed. It was some kind of cache. I removed it and i3-dmenu-desktop is a bit faster but it still takes a second to load. I' going to try j4-dmenu-desktop.
I've tried j4-dmenu-desktop and it is blazing fast!
Asked: Nov 27 '13
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