[SOLVED] xfrun4/xfce4-appfinder launches very slowly

xfrun4 is a little Xfce program that allows to run commands, without having to open a terminal window. Since Xfce 4.10 it also works as a application launcher.

It is summoned using Alt+F2, and usually it pops right up, but lately it takes several seconds, sometimes almost a minute, to open.

When trying to run it from the terminal, it prints this error:

(xfrun4:6232): xfce4-appfinder-CRITICAL **: Failed to open window: Did not receive a reply. Possible causes include: the remote application did not send a reply, the message bus security policy blocked the reply, the reply timeout expired, or the network connection was broken.

This bug has been reported and there's a workaround: use the --disable-server option.

Fix

So to fix this we'll replace the command for the Alt+F2 shortcut with "xfrun4 --disable-server". Open a terminal window and run:

xfconf-query -c xfce4-keyboard-shortcuts -p '/commands/custom/<Alt>F2' -s "xfrun4 --disable-server"

References

Bug #1048805 “xfrun4 launches very slowly”

Comments

  1. Alexander KjällNovember 14, 2012 at 9:10 AM

    Seems like the <Alt&gt disappeared from after F2

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  2. AnonymousDecember 11, 2012 at 6:10 PM

    Thanks! Works like a charm, now!

    But what exactly are we missing without the server stuff?

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    1. Wilson SantosDecember 11, 2012 at 6:52 PM

      Glad that helped.

      With this option xfrun4 won't become a D-Bus service (inter-process communication between applications). As a user I never missed this functionality.

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  3. AnonymousDecember 21, 2012 at 8:42 PM

    Yup, thanks! Much less frustrating when things work like they used to :)

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  4. BrandonMay 1, 2013 at 12:59 AM

    Thanks for this. I noticed this problem appears for me after I replaced xfwm with the gala window manager, with this workaround it works normally again!

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  5. AnonymousJune 27, 2013 at 7:32 AM

    It worked :-)

    Thanks.

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  6. AnonymousJuly 16, 2013 at 1:48 PM

    Thanks a lot for this!

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  7. Guilherme CamposAugust 9, 2013 at 6:06 PM

    Pretty good!
    Thanks!

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  8. UnknownAugust 23, 2013 at 6:01 PM

    Winning, thanks!

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  9. Florian MargaineNovember 28, 2013 at 12:37 PM

    Awesome. Thanks!

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  10. Michał SemeniukDecember 15, 2013 at 12:34 AM

    After over 1 year it's still solution, thanks!

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  11. AnonymousJanuary 21, 2014 at 10:34 AM

    Fantastic!

    Tanks so much.

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  12. AnonymousFebruary 7, 2014 at 8:20 PM

    thanks ,you are my new hero! +10 karma points your way

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  13. AnonymousFebruary 26, 2014 at 2:36 PM

    Following,

    xfconf-query -c xfce4-keyboard-shortcuts -p '/commands/custom/F3' -s "xfce4-appfinder --disable-server"

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  14. CzarnyApril 18, 2014 at 8:01 AM

    Thank you :-)

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  15. AnonymousApril 26, 2014 at 8:09 PM

    thank's

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  16. AnonymousApril 30, 2014 at 11:05 AM

    Killing the deamonized thread (killall -9 xfrun4) solved the problem for me.

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  17. tuxdnaSeptember 11, 2014 at 11:31 AM

    Thanks, it just works!!

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  18. AnonymousMay 15, 2015 at 4:15 PM

    Thanks, it woked for me, 15.05.2015

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  19. Javier QuevedoDecember 15, 2015 at 12:16 PM

    It's amazing that we are almost in 2016 and this is still an issue.
    Thanks for the post, it works, although if you manually click on the menu it obviously still takes ages.

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  20. PerFApril 22, 2016 at 1:16 PM

    Awesome! (Yes, still an issue)

    ReplyDelete

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