On Wed, 20 Oct 2004 07:11:07 -0700 Alan Coopersmith <Alan.Coopersmith@xxxxxxx> wrote: > Stefaan A Eeckels wrote: > > 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. Obviously not - running fc-cache made a tremendous difference and made Blastwave's Gnome significantly faster. Thanks a lot! -- Stefaan -- "What is stated clearly conceives easily." -- Inspired sales droid