Mike FABIAN wrote: > Tested with a CVS snapshot of the fontconfig 2.4 branch from > yesterday. > > I noticed that if the global fonts.cache-2 files are out of date, > applications using fontconfig take a long time to start. > > I understand that this happens once because the user cache file > ~/.fonts.cache-2 has to be generated. But if this file has been > generated, subsequently called applications should start fast. I've experienced problems like this before but I can't reliably reproduce it on my system right now. Can you see if it happens if you erase your ~/.fonts.cache-2 and start again from scratch? pat