This patch fixes SLiM so it really waits for the X server to be ready before attempting to connect to it. Indeed, the X server notices that its parent process has a handler for SIGUSR1, and consequently sends it SIGUSR1 when it's ready to accept connections. The problem was that SLiM doesn't pay attention to SIGUSR1. So in practice, if X starts slowly, then SLiM gets ECONNREFUSED a couple of time on /tmp/.X11-unix/X0, then goes on trying to connect to localhost:6000, where nobody answers; eventually, it times out and tries again on /tmp/.X11-unix/X0, and finally it shows up on the screen. Patch by L. Courtès. --- slim-1.3.6/app.cpp 2014-02-05 15:27:20.000000000 +0100 +++ slim-1.3.6/app.cpp 2014-02-09 22:42:04.000000000 +0100 @@ -119,7 +119,9 @@ void CatchSignal(int sig) { exit(ERR_EXIT); } +static volatile int got_sigusr1 = 0; void User1Signal(int sig) { + got_sigusr1 = 1; signal(sig, User1Signal); } @@ -884,6 +886,7 @@ int App::WaitForServer() { int ncycles = 120; int cycles; + while (!got_sigusr1); for(cycles = 0; cycles < ncycles; cycles++) { if((Dpy = XOpenDisplay(DisplayName))) { XSetIOErrorHandler(xioerror);