a (small) part of the problem *might* be due to the recent documents? I have no idea if .recently-used.xbel is used during startup, but if it is, it is possible that it contributes to making the login time worse.
http://jeff.ecchi.ca/blog/?p=317 Examples of performance decrease because of this phenomenon: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=512108 http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=500772 -- [Gutsy] very slow gnome startup https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/128803 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to gnome-session in ubuntu. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs