Well I can confirm this slowness for the desktop to show up, with or without desktop effects. uptodate: Oct 11-07. Dell D610, 1.6Mhz, 1024RAM, 915 Graphic.
Also need to click on the gnome-panel or the desktop to make the panel show up. Or here: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=571848 -- [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 a bug assignee. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs