Re: Are GNOME apps _supposed_ to open slowly?

["Momchil 'Velco' Velikov" <velco fadata bg>]

William R Pentney wrote:
> 
> On Sat, 8 May 1999, Momchil 'Velco' Velikov wrote:
> 
> strace? No, I haven't. Tell me more.
> 
> It's not the sound card, by the way. Install or remove esd, change the
> sound options, it's still slow.
> 
> > William R Pentney wrote:
> > > other apps open without any problem; only the GNOME ones open slowly.
> >
> > Ever tried strace ?
> >
> > Regards,
> > -velco
> >

man strace ;-)

then

strace gnome-terminal

(or whatever starts slowly) and then there is a good chance that you'll
see
where the process spends a lot of time. Maybe on some read/write on a
socket,
maybe you can find the port number, maybe you can find who the heck is
supposed
to respond on that port, maybe ...

Regards,
-velco