Hi all, I have been trying to get sapwood working to obtain performance improvement but with little success.. I am not sure if I am missing out something basic. I made the required changes in the gtkrc files (changing the engine "pixmap" to engine "sapwood"). The time taken to launch applications is still the same. Below are the steps/logs /usr/local/lib/sapwood/sapwood-server & (sapwood-server:1340): ** INFO: server started ** (sapwood-server:1340): DEBUG: filename: '/usr/local/share/themes/Layte/gtk-2.0/layte-skey-bar.png' ** (sapwood-server:1340): DEBUG: client removed ** (sapwood-server:1340): DEBUG: pixmaps: 0 (0) / # helloworld (helloworld:1341): sapwood-DEBUG: [0x55430] ref: refcnt = 2 (helloworld:1341): sapwood-DEBUG: [0x559b0] unref: refcnt = 0 (helloworld:1341): sapwood-DEBUG: [0x559b0] ref: refcnt = 2 (helloworld:1341): sapwood-DEBUG: [0x55ba0] unref: refcnt = 0 (helloworld:1341): sapwood-DEBUG: [0x5a8c8] ref: refcnt = 2 (helloworld:1341): sapwood-DEBUG: [0x5a630] unref: refcnt = 0 (helloworld:1341): sapwood-DEBUG: [0x5a9f8] ref: refcnt = 2 (helloworld:1341): sapwood-DEBUG: [0x5a630] unref: refcnt = 0 (helloworld:1341): sapwood-DEBUG: [0x5a1a8] ref: refcnt = 2 (helloworld:1341): sapwood-DEBUG: [0x5ae70] unref: refcnt = 0 (helloworld:1341): sapwood-DEBUG: [0x562a8] ref: refcnt = 2 (helloworld:1341): sapwood-DEBUG: [0x5ae70] unref: refcnt = 0 (helloworld:1341): sapwood-DEBUG: [0x589d8] ref: refcnt = 2 (helloworld:1341): sapwood-DEBUG: [0x5ab58] unref: refcnt = 0 (helloworld:1341): sapwood-DEBUG: [0x5ac38] ref: refcnt = 2 (helloworld:1341): sapwood-DEBUG: [0x5af60] unref: refcnt = 0 Thanks in advance. -- Cheers Arvind