Starting mc in an open terminal window is virtually instantaneously for me while starting it via its Whisker menu entry takes a good while (almost ten seconds). Turns out that adding the -u switch remedies this problem (simply edit mc's Whisker menu entry). A further issue for some people seems to be a missing "127.0.0.1 localhost" line in /etc/hosts but as I had that already this could not have the problem.
Additionally, if you want (like me) run mc in its terminal window maximised you can put the following into a file, say mcMax, make it executable and change the Whisker menu entry to mcMax (needs xdotool though and "Run in Terminal" has to remain checked in the launcher dialog):
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Nothing to do with the time the PC has been up. First start takes long (even after the system's up for hours) and second start is no better. That's why I searched for a remedy.
Anyway, the whole issue of mc starting slow on some machines is a grey area and the suggested solutions seem to approach black art at times. It took me a while to identify the issue in my case.
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thomasl wrote: ↑Sat Aug 11, 2018 6:00 am
.. First start takes long (even after the system's up for hours) and second start is no better.
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If you change the destop-starter for Midnigh Commander within Whisker-Menu
by replacing the command "mc" with "xfce4-terminal --command=mc"
and disabling run in terminal, would this make the startup of Midnigh Commander faster?
The desktop-starter would look like this:
@fehlix: No, it doesn't. This was actually the first thing I tried, even before going to Auntie Google.
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