Re: Gnome 2.14 seems sluggish to me ...

[Alan <alan ufies org>]

On Sat, Jun 10, 2006 at 04:13:46PM +0200, Olav Vitters wrote:
> 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.

Another solution I've seen is to make sure that 127.0.0.1 localhost is
in your /etc/hosts file... maybe the desktop is doing hostname lookups
and timing out or something.

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