Slow startup time on Linux >1s

[qgates]

I've read a few earlier issues on Linux startup time (eg. #246). However, I'm finding ghostty slower to start than all other terminals on my relatively old Lenovo T460 laptop. Running Arch / Cinnamon with current updates, Ghostty takes well over 1s to start from the start menu and about the same from another terminal.

By contrast Wezterm takes less than half a second and alacritty a little quicker still.

Is the added startup time related to GTK4 bootstrap? Wondering if this can be improved as it adds friction when launching terminal apps in ghostty via the gui or .desktop shortcuts.

Unrelated, many thanks for your work on Ghostty @mitchellh. Apart from a few wrinkles it's a working out great for me. Thank you 🍺

[jcollie]

The delay is likely because you aren't running xdg-desktop-portal-gnome. Ghostty (before v1.1 which is due soon) makes a synchronous DBus call to determine the system theme. If the XDG desktop portal is not responding you'll get that delay. The next release makes that check asynchronously so that startup isn't unduly delayed.

[qgates]

Many thanks for this. I don't have xdg-desktop-portal-gnome installed and look forward to the next release.

[rafaeloledo]

Waiting for the improve. Using wezterm until it.

[00-kat]

N.B.: v1.1 has been released now.