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 I noticed that if the global fonts.cache-2 files are out of date, 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. CVS HEAD will now remove ~/.fonts.cache-2 if it was previously invalid. pat