Re: Starting Gnome (GTK+) applications is slow (font loading)

2003-12-23 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2003-12-23 09:34:23 +, Clive Menzies wrote: > I'm not sure whether this is relevant but I found Rob Weir's font guide, > posted here a while back, very useful: > > http://egads.ertius.org/~rob/font_guide.txt Thanks, I've done all what this document says, and now gimv starts in about 5 seco

Re: Starting Gnome (GTK+) applications is slow (font loading)

2003-12-23 Thread Clive Menzies
On (23/12/03 09:02), Vincent Lefevre wrote: > On 2003-12-22 18:07:53 -0200, Leandro Guimarães Faria Corcete Dutra wrote: > > Just guessing, but probably you have both the FontPath and the font > > server defined in /etc/X11/XF86Config(-4). Use only one. > > I have the following in "/etc/X11/X

Re: Starting Gnome (GTK+) applications is slow (font loading)

2003-12-22 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2003-12-22 18:07:53 -0200, Leandro Guimarães Faria Corcete Dutra wrote: > Just guessing, but probably you have both the FontPath and the font > server defined in /etc/X11/XF86Config(-4). Use only one. I have the following in "/etc/X11/XF86Config-4": Section "Files" FontPath

Re: Starting Gnome (GTK+) applications is slow (font loading)

2003-12-22 Thread Leandro Guimarães Faria Corcete Dutra
Em Seg, 2003-12-22 Ãs 13:52, Vincent Lefevre escreveu: > For a few weeks, starting Gnome applications such as gimv had been > very slow. For instance, starting gimv (with no options) on my 400MHz > G4 PowerBook takes 25 seconds! A strace suggests that it takes all > this time by loading fonts from

Starting Gnome (GTK+) applications is slow (font loading)

2003-12-22 Thread Vincent Lefevre
For a few weeks, starting Gnome applications such as gimv had been very slow. For instance, starting gimv (with no options) on my 400MHz G4 PowerBook takes 25 seconds! A strace suggests that it takes all this time by loading fonts from /usr/share/texmf/fonts (I have this directory in /etc/fonts/loc