#622 NORM V1.1: Window system and UI startup could be much earlier in the boot sequence.

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#622: Window system and UI startup could be much earlier in the boot sequence.
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  Reporter:  jg      |       Owner:  bernie
      Type:  defect  |      Status:  new   
  Priority:  normal  |   Milestone:  V1.1  
 Component:  distro  |     Version:        
Resolution:          |    Keywords:        
  Verified:  0       |  
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Comment(by bernie):

 Replying to [comment:11 jg]:
 > And when we're not loading so many useless or dangerous extensions,
 things will go faster yet.

 This would be #3715.  We're already down at 3 dynamically loaded modules:

  extmod
  freetype
  evdev

 Most of the extensions we want to get rid of are embedded within extmod.


 > The xkb sillyness still hurts X startup time right now as well, but we
 have to have xkb, and it isn't on our agenda to solve that problem.

 We could load the precompiled keymap and call xkbcomp only when the
 settings change.  The olpc-configure script would be a good place to do
 that.

 When we switch to X 1.4, the hardcoded configuration in xorg.conf will
 have to go away. We could set the xkb options from within .xinitrc or even
 sugar.

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