Stefaan A Eeckels wrote: > Hi List, > > I've just subscribed, please direct me to the answer > if what I'm about to ask is the FAQ of the century :-). > > Comparing Sun's Gnome 2.0 and the Blastwave build of > Gnome 2.6 (on Solaris/SPARC), I've noticed that the > 2.6 applications have an incredibly long start-up time > (even on a Blade 2000 2x900cu, which while not the > fastest machine on earth, is certainly no slouch). > A bit of trussing reveals that even the most trivial > of programs performs a full scan of all the available > font files on the system. Run fc-cache as root first to build the font caches so the applications don't have to do this. The fontconfig provided by Sun in Solaris will do this for you, but I don't know if blastwave's will. -- -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersmith@xxxxxxx Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering
