Re: Gnome 2.14 seems sluggish to me ...

[Olav Vitters <olav bkor dhs org>]

On Fri, Jun 09, 2006 at 04:31:59PM +0200, Kiffin Gish wrote:
> Seems VERY sluggish, the Gnome Desktop takes forever to start, and most
> applications (xterm being one notable exception) take a long time to
> startup. Often everything freezes up with erratic and slow repainting.

If only the starting is very sluggish, try running either
  fc-cache -f
or (if you have a new enough version):
  fc-cache -r

as root and under your normal user account

perhaps also something like strace might provide some insight

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Regards,
Olav