Hi to all, I have an application that works perfectly, but rendering is extremely slow (bringing up the application takes over 8 seconds, a popup window takes a little over 4). While I realize that it isn't necessarily a guarantee that this is the problem, stepping through the application with gdb shows that the bulk of this (4-5 seconds) occurs when I try to show the top widgets. However, if I take out all changes to the background colors and fonts, the time drops to 3 seconds to bring up the applicaton and < 1 second for popup windows. I don't know if changing these via the rc file is faster, but that option isn't available to me anyway since I won't know what colors or fonts to use until run-time. Any ideas on what's going on? I can supply some code if necessary. Thanks for any help! Brooke PS - I'm working on a sparc ultra 5 that runs Solaris 8, BUT the application is running from a window where I've ssh'd to a linux terminal that runs redhat 9 with a 2.4.20-18.9 kernel _______________________________________________ gtk-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list