F30, XFCE google-earth-pro problem

[ja]

I have a newly installed F30, XFCE system.

google-earth-pro will run from a terminal (user fred) but has a 50 second
startup and closedown time.

Tests have shown that su - fred  and then running google-earth-pro
avoids the delay.
env shows greatly fewer environmental variables are set in the "su - fred" case.

This led to an alternative approach of un-setting some environmental variables.
(without the "su - fred" step)

unset XDG_RUNTIME_DIR; unset DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS; google-earth-pro
The delay is no longer present and google-earth-pro appears to run OK.

Has anyone any idea what is going on here?

How important are those environmental variables?

EXTERNAL: F30, XFCE google-earth-pro problem

[Wells, Roger K.]

On 5/20/19 9:28 AM, ja wrote:
> I have a newly installed F30, XFCE system.
>
> google-earth-pro will run from a terminal (user fred) but has a 50 second
> startup and closedown time.

Observing exactly this but on gnome 3.32.2.
It began with an upgrade from F29 to F30 and is observed on either
Wayland or Xorg
> Tests have shown that su - fred  and then running google-earth-pro
> avoids the delay.
> env shows greatly fewer environmental variables are set in the "su - fred" case.
>
> This led to an alternative approach of un-setting some environmental variables.
> (without the "su - fred" step)
>
> unset XDG_RUNTIME_DIR; unset DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS; google-earth-pro
> The delay is no longer present and google-earth-pro appears to run OK.
>
> Has anyone any idea what is going on here?
>
> How important are those environmental variables?
>
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[ToddAndMargo]

On 5/20/19 6:27 AM, ja wrote:
> I have a newly installed F30, XFCE system.
>
> google-earth-pro will run from a terminal (user fred) but has a 50 second
> startup and closedown time.

Hi Ja,

Not what you asked, but I use KDE Marble in Fedora 30.

# dnf install marble

Also, I use

https://www.google.com/maps

from Firefox.

-T

[Ed Greshko]

On 5/20/19 9:27 PM, ja wrote:
> I have a newly installed F30, XFCE system.
>
> google-earth-pro will run from a terminal (user fred) but has a 50 second
> startup and closedown time.
>
> Tests have shown that su - fred  and then running google-earth-pro
> avoids the delay.
> env shows greatly fewer environmental variables are set in the "su - fred" case.
>
> This led to an alternative approach of un-setting some environmental variables.
> (without the "su - fred" step)
>
> unset XDG_RUNTIME_DIR; unset DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS; google-earth-pro
> The delay is no longer present and google-earth-pro appears to run OK.
>
> Has anyone any idea what is going on here?

FWIW, running F30/KDE and google-earth-pro-stable-7.3.2.5776-0 and no start-up issues.

[ja]

On Tue, 2019-05-21 at 13:07 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote:
> On 5/20/19 9:27 PM, ja wrote:
> > I have a newly installed F30, XFCE system.
> >
> > google-earth-pro will run from a terminal (user fred) but has a 50 second
> > startup and closedown time.
> >
> > Tests have shown that su - fred  and then running google-earth-pro
> > avoids the delay.
> > env shows greatly fewer environmental variables are set in the "su - fred" case.
> >
> > This led to an alternative approach of un-setting some environmental variables.
> > (without the "su - fred" step)
> >
> > unset XDG_RUNTIME_DIR; unset DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS; google-earth-pro
> > The delay is no longer present and google-earth-pro appears to run OK.
> >
> > Has anyone any idea what is going on here?
>
> FWIW, running F30/KDE and google-earth-pro-stable-7.3.2.5776-0 and no start-up issues.

ja@naxos ~ 5$ rpm -qa|grep earth
google-earth-pro-stable-7.3.2.5776-0.x86_64

Just out of interest
are the two variables set to the same values as mine?
XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=/run/user/2000
DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS=unix:path=/run/user/2000/bus

[Ed Greshko]

On 5/21/19 4:05 PM, ja wrote:
> On Tue, 2019-05-21 at 13:07 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote:
> > On 5/20/19 9:27 PM, ja wrote:
> > > I have a newly installed F30, XFCE system.
> > >
> > > google-earth-pro will run from a terminal (user fred) but has a 50 second
> > > startup and closedown time.
> > >
> > > Tests have shown that su - fred  and then running google-earth-pro
> > > avoids the delay.
> > > env shows greatly fewer environmental variables are set in the "su - fred" case.
> > >
> > > This led to an alternative approach of un-setting some environmental variables.
> > > (without the "su - fred" step)
> > >
> > > unset XDG_RUNTIME_DIR; unset DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS; google-earth-pro
> > > The delay is no longer present and google-earth-pro appears to run OK.
> > >
> > > Has anyone any idea what is going on here?
> >
> > FWIW, running F30/KDE and google-earth-pro-stable-7.3.2.5776-0 and no start-up issues.
>
> ja@naxos ~ 5$ rpm -qa|grep earth
> google-earth-pro-stable-7.3.2.5776-0.x86_64
>
> Just out of interest
> are the two variables set to the same values as mine?
> XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=/run/user/2000
> DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS=unix:path=/run/user/2000/bus

The same.  Except my UID is 1029.