Re: gnome-screensaver

[Matthias Clasen <matthias clasen gmail com>]

On 2/7/06, William Jon McCann <mccann jhu edu> wrote:
> Hello Davyd,
>
> Davyd Madeley wrote:
> > I see that both Ubuntu Dapper and Fedora Core 5 test 2 are shipping
> > with gnome-screensaver now.
> >
> > Having now used both of them, does it seem slow for anyone else? It
> > seems that something has gone astray once or twice and forced me to
> > have to change vt and kill the process to get my session back.
>
> I suspect that you may be running into:
> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=328441
>
> If you think it is something else feel free to open a new bug and we can
> try to track it down.
>

I also think that a large part of the slowness may be explained by fontconfig
brokenness until recently. If it is still too slow, we might consider
starting it
ahead of time.