Desktop Background slow to appear

[kackie12]

When I login, the desktop background is the last object to render. Often, I have my panels and brower open before the black-desktop suddenly display the wallpaper.

Are there are standard mechanisms for increasing the speed of the login intialisation? Or perhaps, re-order the list of applications to make the desktop appear first? It seems to be waiting for the panels to finish loading before the wallpaper shows, so perhaps the launch order is set that way for a reason.

[mikeflan]

My guess is that this is normal behavior. Unless the desktop is showing 15 more more seconds after the panels show.

[kackie12]

Takes about 9-11 seconds.
Considering I'm using a 2.2ghz dual core proc with 2g ram and an intel integrated gpu, that seems about right.
very cheap and underpowered HP netbook, I understand I'm pushing the limits of it's capabilities.
Still, if anyone has any ideas for optimization I'd love to hear them...er-read them.

[cottfcfan]

Mines the same, not quite as bad, maybe 5s.
I think that this may have something to do with Mint using a customized login manager.
I know that it doesn't happen on Xubuntu though.