Bug#1049423: gnome-calculator: takes 55 seconds to start

[Jeremy Bícha]

On Mon, Apr 28, 2025 at 9:29 PM Vincent Lefevre <vincent at vinc17.net> wrote:
> On 2025-04-28 20:15:01 -0400, Jeremy Bícha wrote:
> > gtk4 now uses XDG desktop portals by default. I guess you need to
> > figure out how to get xdg-desktop-portal working in your environment
> > or disable portals in gtk4 and maybe also in libadwaita. There are
> > environment variables you can use.
> >
> > https://docs.gtk.org/gtk4/running.html suggests GDK_DEBUG=no-portals
>
> "export GDK_DEBUG=no-portals" has no effect.
>
> Note that the startup time has apparently reduced to around 15 seconds
> (whether GDK_DEBUG=no-portals is used or not), which is still large.

Does also setting ADW_DISABLE_PORTAL=1 help?

Thank you,
Jeremy Bícha