Hi, About 2 years ago, you reported a bug to the Debian BTS regarding X applications starting slowly after fonts upgrade. Did you reproduce this problem recently? With Xorg/Etch? With latest Xorg packages in unstable? IIRC, the server relies on per-user fonts cache (we have a bug about this, #318149). But i don't think you should need to run fc-cache by hand. Thanks, Brice