D. R. Evans <N7DR@arrl.net> wrote: : -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- : Hash: SHA1 : I have installed wine 20010629 from codeweavers (this seems to be the : latest version available from there). : Running on a 700MHz Linux box, with gnome as the desktop manager and icewm : as the window manager. : If I run the (in)famous SOL.EXE, it takes 53 seconds before the program : appears on the desktop. All the other programs I've tried seem to take at : least this long (and sometimes several minutes) before they appear. : Is this normal, or might there be somewthing screwy with my configuration Wine startup is slow, especially for the first time when all fonts are scanned. Wine starts up a whole win32/16 subsystem, so compare it more to booting windows then to start a program under windows. However you can start the wineserver in some perststant mode and then startup of programm should be faster. Bye -- Uwe Bonnes bon@elektron.ikp.physik.tu-darmstadt.de Institut fuer Kernphysik Schlossgartenstrasse 9 64289 Darmstadt --------- Tel. 06151 162516 -------- Fax. 06151 164321 ----------
