Hi > > Many GTK apps have startup times around 1s. gedit, for example, on a > relatively fast box, and that's pulling some GNOME libs with it... What > about emacs would make it so slow? gedit is pretty slow compared to leafpad on my box. it would nice to have that one as an alternative. the gtk file dialog boxes takes around 5 seconds the first time -- Regards, Rahul Sundaram