Re: Slow ETerms

[DvB <dvanbalen@jam.rr.com>]

Ross Burton <ross.burton@mail.com> writes:

> Hi,
> 
> Is anyone else seeing this?  On my Debian unstable system when I start
> an Eterm there is a pause of 2 or so seconds before the window is
> usable.  At work under RH62 and a machine of similar speed an Eterm pops
> up in 1/2 second.  I ran strace on Eterm and found that Eterm spent most
> of its time waiting for information from the font server.
> 


I'm running 0.9.1-2 in testing and haven't had any trouble on either of
my machines.
AFAIK, you don't have to run the font server with X4.1 (not sure about
4.0) so you might try disabling it (not sure how you'd do that
exactly... try searching google for a howto or something).

HTH