On Jan 20, 2008 7:03 PM, Ric Moore <<a href="mailto:wayward4now@gmail.com">wayward4now@gmail.com</a>> wrote: <div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> <div class="Ih2E3d">On Sun, 2008-01-20 at 12:16 -0600, Frank Cox wrote: > On Sun, 20 Jan 2008 13:13:14 -0500 > Dick Seabrook <<a href="mailto:dick.seabrook@gmail.com">dick.seabrook@gmail.com</a>> wrote: > > > Has anyone else using F8 noticed a slowness to open the > > desktop during user login? > > No. > > > Maybe it's my imagination > > Could be. > > > but it seems to take a few seconds longer each time I bring up > > F8 and log in as a normal user. > > Perhaps you're loading something on login that takes a few seconds to > initialize. Check your sessions list and see if that's what it is. </div>Mine used to be as slow as pig-iron until I figured out that the previous session was being saved and then restored upon the next login, due to a setting in one little obscure check-box. That was back in FC5 or 6. But, I haven't seen it on by default since though. I'm sure I pushed the red button not fully understanding what it would do. I have my moments. :) Ric </blockquote></div>That was it!! Sessions was set to "Default last session" and I changed it to Gnome and made that the default and now it's positively zippy! Thanks! Dick S. -- Dick Seabrook ~ Anne Arundel Community College <a href="http://enterprise.aacc.edu/~rhs"> http://enterprise.aacc.edu/~rhs</a> ~ Speed the Net!