[Fontconfig] Slow startup of trivial GNOME 2.6 applications

[Stefaan A Eeckels]

On Wed, 20 Oct 2004 07:11:07 -0700
Alan Coopersmith <Alan.Coopersmith at Sun.COM> wrote:

> Stefaan A Eeckels wrote:

> > 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.

Obviously not - running fc-cache made a tremendous difference
and made Blastwave's Gnome significantly faster. Thanks a lot!

-- 
Stefaan
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