Re: X applications take long time to start

[Christian Biere <christianbiere%gmx.de@localhost>]

Christoph Leuzinger wrote:
> I recently upgraded png and lots of X11 apps which depend on it to 
> their respective 2006Q3 versions on a NetBSD-3.0.1/i386 machine. I 
> noticed that starting X11 applications such as gdmgreeter, wmaker, etc. 
> takes quite a lot of time, certainly more than before the upgrade. The 
> application processes keep running for a while before they finally 
> print their output to the X server and run fine.

I would suspect it's related to font loading. Have you traced the
applications to see what they are doing?

-- 
Christian