Re: linux, alot of fonts and slow window startups

[Thierry Vignaud <tvignaud mandriva com>]

zentara <zentara1 sbcglobal net> writes:

> Well after installing the fonts, my Perl/Gtk2 windows
> seemed to take alot longer to come onto the screen.
> Like "a fraction of a second before" to "3 or 4 seconds after".
> My Perl/Tk programs were not affected.
>
> What would cause this?

gtk-perl apps gtk+ using pango and thus fontconfig are affected by
font cache problems (eg a bogus timestamp on a font directory, we had
have bugs like this on mandriva linux)

just my 2 cents