Mint 20 Mate slow after Login

[munzelthecat]

xdg-desktop-portal.service causes a long wait after login (in my case about 25 sec) until the desktop and its icons appear.

systemctl --user status xdg-desktop-portal.service generates the following error message:xdg-desktop-por[1464]: Failed to get application states: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.portal.Error.Failed: Could not get window list

The effect can be reproduced by reinstalling Mint 20. The system startup is then still ok and after login the desktop appears quickly.
After running all offered updates and rebooting, the desktop appears heavily delayed.

[clefebvre]

Does this help?

systemctl --user stop xdg-desktop-portal{,-gtk}
systemctl --user disable xdg-desktop-portal{,-gtk}

[mtwebster]

Can you paste/attach your ~/.xsession-errors?

[munzelthecat]

My workaround was to uninstall the xdg-desktop-portal-gtk file using the package manager. I installed it again and after reboot I get the following /.xsession-errors: dbus-update-activation-environment: setting DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS=unix:path=/run/user/1000/bus dbus-update-activation-environment: setting DISPLAY=:0 dbus-update-activation-environment: setting XAUTHORITY=/home/dirk/.Xauthority dbus-update-activation-environment: setting GTK_MODULES=gail:atk-bridge dbus-update-activation-environment: setting QT_ACCESSIBILITY=1 dbus-update-activation-environment: setting SHELL=/bin/bash dbus-update-activation-environment: setting QT_ACCESSIBILITY=1 dbus-update-activation-environment: setting XDG_CONFIG_DIRS=/etc/xdg/xdg-mate:/etc/xdg dbus-update-activation-environment: setting XDG_SESSION_PATH=/org/freedesktop/DisplayManager/Session0 dbus-update-activation-environment: setting LANGUAGE=de_DE:de dbus-update-activation-environment: setting LC_ADDRESS=de_DE.UTF-8 dbus-update-activation-environment: setting LC_NAME=de_DE.UTF-8 dbus-update-activation-environment: setting DESKTOP_SESSION=mate dbus-update-activation-environment: setting LC_MONETARY=de_DE.UTF-8 dbus-update-activation-environment: setting GTK_MODULES=gail:atk-bridge dbus-update-activation-environment: setting PWD=/home/dirk dbus-update-activation-environment: setting XDG_SESSION_DESKTOP=mate dbus-update-activation-environment: setting LOGNAME=dirk dbus-update-activation-environment: setting XDG_SESSION_TYPE=x11 dbus-update-activation-environment: setting GPG_AGENT_INFO=/run/user/1000/gnupg/S.gpg-agent:0:1 dbus-update-activation-environment: setting XAUTHORITY=/home/dirk/.Xauthority dbus-update-activation-environment: setting XDG_GREETER_DATA_DIR=/var/lib/lightdm-data/dirk dbus-update-activation-environment: setting GDM_LANG=de_DE dbus-update-activation-environment: setting HOME=/home/dirk dbus-update-activation-environment: setting IM_CONFIG_PHASE=1 dbus-update-activation-environment: setting LANG=de_DE.UTF-8 dbus-update-activation-environment: setting LC_PAPER=de_DE.UTF-8 dbus-update-activation-environment: setting XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP=MATE dbus-update-activation-environment: setting XDG_SEAT_PATH=/org/freedesktop/DisplayManager/Seat0 dbus-update-activation-environment: setting XDG_SESSION_CLASS=user dbus-update-activation-environment: setting LC_IDENTIFICATION=de_DE.UTF-8 dbus-update-activation-environment: setting USER=dirk dbus-update-activation-environment: setting DISPLAY=:0 dbus-update-activation-environment: setting SHLVL=1 dbus-update-activation-environment: setting LC_TELEPHONE=de_DE.UTF-8 dbus-update-activation-environment: setting LC_MEASUREMENT=de_DE.UTF-8 dbus-update-activation-environment: setting XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=/run/user/1000 dbus-update-activation-environment: setting LC_TIME=de_DE.UTF-8 dbus-update-activation-environment: setting XDG_DATA_DIRS=/usr/share/mate:/home/dirk/.local/share/flatpak/exports/share:/var/lib/flatpak/exports/share:/usr/local/share:/usr/share dbus-update-activation-environment: setting PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games:/usr/local/games:/snap/bin dbus-update-activation-environment: setting GDMSESSION=mate dbus-update-activation-environment: setting DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS=unix:path=/run/user/1000/bus dbus-update-activation-environment: setting LC_NUMERIC=de_DE.UTF-8 dbus-update-activation-environment: setting _=/usr/bin/dbus-update-activation-environment mate-session[954]: WARNING: Unable to find provider '' of required component 'dock' /usr/bin/window-manager-launcher:15: PyGIDeprecationWarning: Using positional arguments with the GObject constructor has been deprecated. Please specify keyword(s) for "schema" or use a class specific constructor. See: https://wiki.gnome.org/PyGObject/InitializerDeprecations   settings = Gio.Settings("com.linuxmint.desktop") /usr/bin/window-manager-launcher:59: PyGIDeprecationWarning: Using positional arguments with the GObject constructor has been deprecated. Please specify keyword(s) for "schema" or use a class specific constructor. See: https://wiki.gnome.org/PyGObject/InitializerDeprecations   settings = Gio.Settings("org.mate.Marco.general") Warnung der Fensterverwaltung:Log level 128: unsetenv() is not thread-safe and should not be used after threads are created (caja:1234): Gtk-WARNING **: 16:24:24.045: Failed to register client: GDBus.Error:org.gnome.SessionManager.AlreadyRegistered: Unable to register client (mate-volume-control-status-icon:1272): libmatemixer-CRITICAL **: 16:24:24.283: mate_mixer_stream_control_get_mute: assertion 'MATE_MIXER_IS_STREAM_CONTROL (control)' failed (mate-volume-control-status-icon:1272): libmatemixer-CRITICAL **: 16:24:24.325: mate_mixer_stream_control_get_mute: assertion 'MATE_MIXER_IS_STREAM_CONTROL (control)' failed Caja-Share-Message: 16:24:49.906: Called "net usershare info" but it failed: »net usershare« meldet folgenden Fehler 255: net usershare: cannot open usershare directory /var/lib/samba/usershares. Error Datei oder Verzeichnis nicht gefunden Please ask your system administrator to enable user sharing. ATTENTION: default value of option mesa_glthread overridden by environment. ATTENTION: default value of option mesa_glthread overridden by environment. Warnung der Fensterverwaltung:Buggy client sent a _NET_ACTIVE_WINDOW message with a timestamp of 0 for 0x2400060 (mintMenu.p) Warnung der Fensterverwaltung:meta_window_activate called by a pager with a 0 timestamp; the pager needs to be fixed. Warnung der Fensterverwaltung:Buggy client sent a _NET_ACTIVE_WINDOW message with a timestamp of 0 for 0x1600007 (Legitimier) Warnung der Fensterverwaltung:meta_window_activate called by a pager with a 0 timestamp; the pager needs to be fixed. Am 27.01.23 um 15:45 schrieb Michael Webster:

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Can you paste/attach your ~/.xsession-errors?

[munzelthecat]

After ~$ systemctl --user stop xdg-desktop-portal{,-gtk} the service is stopped.
`~$ systemctl status --user xdg-desktop-portal.service
● xdg-desktop-portal.service - Portal service
Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/user/xdg-desktop-portal.service; static; >
Active: inactive (dead)

Jan 27 16:37:18 HP-PC systemd[902]: Starting Portal service...
Jan 27 16:37:44 HP-PC systemd[902]: Started Portal service.
Jan 27 16:38:14 HP-PC xdg-desktop-por[1323]: Failed to get application states: >
Jan 27 16:41:09 HP-PC systemd[902]: Stopping Portal service...
Jan 27 16:41:09 HP-PC systemd[902]: xdg-desktop-portal.service: Succeeded.
Jan 27 16:41:09 HP-PC systemd[902]: Stopped Portal service.
`

After ~$ systemctl --user disable xdg-desktop-portal{,-gtk} the service seems not to be disabled. The same message appears.
`~$ systemctl status --user xdg-desktop-portal.service
● xdg-desktop-portal.service - Portal service
Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/user/xdg-desktop-portal.service; static; >
Active: inactive (dead)

Jan 27 16:37:18 HP-PC systemd[902]: Starting Portal service...
Jan 27 16:37:44 HP-PC systemd[902]: Started Portal service.
Jan 27 16:38:14 HP-PC xdg-desktop-por[1323]: Failed to get application states: >
Jan 27 16:41:09 HP-PC systemd[902]: Stopping Portal service...
Jan 27 16:41:09 HP-PC systemd[902]: xdg-desktop-portal.service: Succeeded.
Jan 27 16:41:09 HP-PC systemd[902]: Stopped Portal service.
`

[mtwebster]

Do you have any flatpak apps installed? If so, which?

flatpak list

[munzelthecat]

No, I have not installed any Flatpak because they take up too much space and the principle does not convince me.

flatpak list
does not return any output.

[mtwebster]

There's something that's using the xdg-portal interface to request background operation at startup. Do you have any additional programs starting when you login (often they provide a system tray icon as well). You could try disabling these things to maybe narrow down the culprit.

This background interface is provided by xdg-desktop-portal-gtk in Mint 20, though it is attempting to communicate with Gnome-Shell which obviously isn't running. Fortunately, in Mint 21/Ubuntu 22.04 the gtk package no longer does this (there's an xdg-desktop-portal-gnome package that provides this only when shell is running.

Since you're not using flatpaks anyhow you can uninstall both xdg-desktop-portal and xdg-desktop-portal-gtk, and this issue should go away.

flatpak/xdg-desktop-portal#336
https://docs.flatpak.org/en/latest/portal-api-reference.html#gdbus-org.freedesktop.portal.Background

[munzelthecat]

All right, thank you very much. Then I will also uninstall xdg-desktop-portal.

[bttrx]

$ sudo apt purge xdg-desktop-portal worked for me to on LM20.2M.