Thursday, February 24, 2022

Slow startup of Gnocl based applications in Ubuntu 20.4

 The recent changes to the Ubuntu 20.4 deployment sometimes sees slow startup times of between 25-60secs. Thankfully someone has solved the problem. I've downloaded the module and it works for me.


https://itsfoss.community/t/solved-apps-opening-too-slow-in-ubuntu-20-04/4578/2

With help from a teammate in investigating the common problem with our apps, he discovered a cure by installing the deprecated gtk2 library module. Available in the 20.04 distro.

All you need to do is to run this command:

sudo apt install appmenu-gtk2-module

and then rebooting. You need to reboot to get the new library working.

This allows older applications based on the older menu API to function normally. Solved the issue with Boinc Manager and GKrellm config menu.

Ref: https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/bionic/+package/appmenu-gtk2-module 478

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