Is it possible to speed up the launcher? (discuss.tchncs.de)

submitted 4 months ago by PotatoesFall@discuss.tchncs.de to c/kde@lemmy.ml

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Hey friends!

Basically, here is my problem. I open the launcher menu (or KRunner) and start typing. Let's say I type "firefox", and hit Enter.

The launcher menu is very slow. It often opens "Files" instead, because that pops up after I type the first two letters.

Basically this means I need to wait a second for the launcher to finish searching, show me firefox, and then press enter.

This is frankly infuriating. Every other launcher on any other desktop or WM does not have this issue.

I have experienced this on two different machines running both Plasma 5 and 6, on different distros, both are beefy machines.

I'm sure there is a way to avoid it, does anybody know?

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[-] unknowing8343@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

You can configure Krunner to not use some services that may be causing tthe lag.

It's superfast in my machine.

Also, I think the first launch is the most problematic, so try to launch the background service at start, there must be some tutorials on this.

In any case, Krunner is not supposed to be a key-combo launcher. It's a search engine. Use shortcuts for opening your most used apps.

Super+B for browser
Super+E for file explorer

...and so on

[-] PotatoesFall@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 4 months ago

To be honest it should work even with lag. If I type firefox then never ever should files be selected, it's just crazy to me. Maybe I should report this as a bug, I'm sure it's easily fixed.

[-] boredsquirrel@slrpnk.net 2 points 4 months ago

The new cache-to-RAM improvements in Plasma 6.1 will help a lot.

Then, for plasma search, you can configure the placement of the results in systemsettings. This is also Plasma 6 only afaik

[-] PotatoesFall@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

I don't actually care about speed to be honest, more the correctness. Should have phrased my question differently oops

[-] boredsquirrel@slrpnk.net 2 points 4 months ago

What do you mean by correctness?

[-] PotatoesFall@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 4 months ago

Well if I type "discord" then "discover" is an incorrect result, imo.

[-] boredsquirrel@slrpnk.net 2 points 4 months ago

Is this an actual example?

Here the search is so quick, that on "dis" is already has results. But then the delay to search again is too high.

[-] PotatoesFall@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 4 months ago

Yes, actual example.

I followed the advice of another user and disabled some of the search options and its super fast now and should probably fix my issue. I still went ahead and reported this as a bug though

[-] tippfehlr@fosstodon.org 2 points 4 months ago

@PotatoesFall for me the discover/discord combination is especially painful. Didn't find anything with a quick search

[-] PotatoesFall@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 4 months ago

@tippfehlr@fosstodon.org Yep I've had that one too!

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