Re: Gnome over Exceed

[Damon Chaplin <damon ximian com>]

On Fri, 2002-06-28 at 09:39, Wilfried Steiner wrote:
> Dear Experts out there !
> 
> I've recently installed the new Gnome 2.0 beta, for sun solaris 9.
> 
> There are no problems when using it local at the server.
> 
> However, when I try to use it remotely over a 100Mbit network,
> it takes almost 15 minutes to startup and 5 to 10 minutes for each
> application to start.
> 
> There is no problem, once I have the windows on my scree, moving around, and so
> on is quite ok.
> 
> My remote machine is using Exceed as X-server.

You could try using truss to spot what it is doing that takes so long,
e.g. 'truss gedit'.

Dave suspects a bad/slow font server problem, so try reducing the number
of fonts and see if that makes any difference.

Damon