KDE login slow

[Guest]

Hi

Using a fresh install of Kubuntu 15.10 x64. On a ntel i5-6600, 8GB RAM, SDD system. No bluetooth hardware.

After the KDE login progress bar reaches its 100%, it then takes an additional 25 seconds before beginning the visual transition to the KDE desktop. Once that visual transition starts it is quick to complete.

The follow bug reports initially sounded similar so I un-installed network-manager and plasma-nm and disabled the the bluetooth.service, however that has not reduced the 25 seconds delay at all.

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+s...m/+bug/1509334

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=354230

That bug reports mentions that once the desktop begins to appear that it takes too long to finish initialising the desktop so that it has all its widgets and icons etc... However that is not exactly the issue I have. In my case, the issue is the 25 seconds delay before the desktop even begins to appear. In my case after the 25 second delay, the desktop begins to appear and completely initialisation very quickly.

I uninstalled network-manager and plasma-nm by doing

apt-get remove network-manager

I disabled the bluetooth service by doing

systemctl disable bluetooth.service

Given that removing network-manager and plasma-nm didn't fix the delay, I'm thinking the root cause is different to the above bug reports.

Any ideas what else I've got to do in order to reduce the above 25 second delay ?

I'm new to this forum. If I should be posting to another group, please let me know.

Thanks,
Declan

[Guest]

The suggestion at https://www.kubuntuforums.net/showth...l=1#post381025 from siabost
has solved the issue for me. Ie going into Settings/Start Up & Shutdown/Desktop Sessions/On Login and changing the setting to "Start with an Empty Session".
Many thanks Siabost.