Starting Gnome (GTK+) applications is slow (font loading)
For a few weeks, starting Gnome applications such as gimv had been
very slow. For instance, starting gimv (with no options) on my 400MHz
G4 PowerBook takes 25 seconds! A strace suggests that it takes all
this time by loading fonts from /usr/share/texmf/fonts (I have this
directory in /etc/fonts/local.conf since it is used by Mozilla in
order to render MathML).
Does anyone have similar problems?
Couldn't these applications use a font cache?
TIA for any information,
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Vincent Lefèvre <vincent@vinc17.org> - Web: <http://www.vinc17.org/> - 100%
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