Ken Moffat wrote: > But on the second point (slowness) - I've seen xorg taking a > significant time to start the first time on *two* builds since, I > think, last October. I think one was when I was testing things for > make-4.0, the other time was one of my four 7.5 builds and I believe > they happened once on each of my two main machines. In each case, > the subsequent runs of 'startx', whatever the wm, were at normal > speed. I didn't measure how long either slow start took (wasn't > expecting it to be slow), but I would be surprised if it was more > than a minute each time - that _is_ on a reasonably fast machine > (phenom, 3.4GHz, and Sandy Bridge, I think 3.2 GHz), so if it is the > same problem, a slow machine could well take two minutes. Whatever, > for me this has only ever happ0ened the first time I run startx.
Did you run fc-cache (as root) before running startx? It creates a system-wide font information cache in /var/cache/fontconfig. If that doesn't exist or if it's not up-to-date, it's created in your home directory when you start X. This can take some time if you have a lot of fonts installed. In a single-user system the location of the font cache doesn't really matter, but personally I prefer running fc-cache as root every time I install or uninstall fonts. X starts quite fast for me when the font cache is up-to-date. Of course there can be other reasons for the slowness you described, but this was the first thing that came to my mind. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
