Re: Gnome 2.14 seems sluggish to me ...

[Olav Vitters <olav bkor dhs org>]

On Sat, Jun 10, 2006 at 06:44:34AM -0700, John Jason Jordan wrote:
> On Sat, 10 Jun 2006 15:14:01 +0200
> Olav Vitters <olav bkor dhs org> dijo:
> 
> > 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
> 
> > 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
> 
> I can't find any documentation. What does the fc command do? Or where
> is it documented?

fc-cache is part of fontconfig. Fontconfig handles all the fonts. It
uses caches otherwise every app will take 30secs to startup due to
fontconfig being busy reading the fonts.

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Regards,
Olav