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KDE Start Search is slow (beehaw.org)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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So my workflow is typically hit start -> cmd -> enter which I can usually do these 3 actions in less than 2 seconds on Windows. I've tried a dozen different distros on Wayland, X11, with and without the Nvidia proprietary drivers. KDE search seems to be too slow for me to do this though. Cinnamon, Gnome, Mate, and XFCE don't seem to have this problem. Is there a way to speed up the KDE start search or to at least somehow buffer the enter input so I am not stuck pressing enter again?

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Weird. It's always been fast for me.

Is something throttling your CPU ? Have you tried using ALT+F2 to search ? But even if you had not it should be quick to search...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Nothing is throttling my CPU unless it's somehow defaulted on in OpenSuse, Manjaro, Debian, or Linux Mint. Also these same distros, I installed other DEs on and had it work just fine. It's a AMD Ryzen 9 3900x 4 ghz 12 cores.

This is specifically a KDE problem. So question, if you do windows key -> term/kon -> enter. As quickly as you can, does it accept the enter input and immediately launch your terminal?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I may not be as fast as you, but yeah it does work. Then again, I'm not using the default launcher.

I only notice it slightly slower on my intel i5 3rd gen machine. Which is exlected.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Oh what launcher are you using?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

It's called minimal menu

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

@MJBrune @Ashiette I tried doing it as quickly as I can and it didn't work the first time (result appeared what looks like about 0.1-0.2s later) but it did work in subsequent attempts (even when looking for other apps)
CPU: i5-1135G7

If you look for an app and then for a different app, does it find it quickly? I suspect it might be reading the .desktop files lazily (meaning it only reads them the first time you look for something)
Edit: nvm ksycoca is there to prevent that

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Even if I look for the same app over and over again, it doesn't speed up. Doesn't seem like a caching issue to me. Perhaps the second time you were just .1-.2 seconds slower on the enter button?