[Fontconfig] Slow startup of trivial GNOME 2.6 applications

[Alan Coopersmith]

Stefaan A Eeckels wrote:
> Hi List,
> 
> I've just subscribed, please direct me to the answer
> if what I'm about to ask is the FAQ of the century :-).
> 
> Comparing Sun's Gnome 2.0 and the Blastwave build of
> Gnome 2.6 (on Solaris/SPARC), I've noticed that the
> 2.6 applications have an incredibly long start-up time
> (even on a Blade 2000 2x900cu, which while not the
> fastest machine on earth, is certainly no slouch). 
> A bit of trussing reveals that even the most trivial
> of programs performs a full scan of all the available
> font files on the system. 

Run fc-cache as root first to build the font caches so the
applications don't have to do this.   The fontconfig provided
by Sun in Solaris will do this for you, but I don't know if
blastwave's will.


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	 Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering