On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 05:48:39PM -0500, Jack wrote: > On 2013.02.13 16:47, Thomas Dickey wrote: > >On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 12:17:07PM -0500, Jack wrote: > >> Note these are after installing the sony font. It looks like a > >> nearly complete list of charsets. I certainly don't need most of > >> them. I wonder if there is some Windows setting to trim down the > >> list even considered on the PC? > > > >Probably not - the problem is in the X libraries: > > > > http://invisible-island.net/xterm/xterm.faq.html#slow_menus > > I'll play with xterm, but I've never noticed a bad delay in startup. > Also - this seems only partly related to the xfig startup messages. > Does anyone know offhand if xfig also uses the Athena widgets?
yes (according to the dependencies I see in Debian, it's one of 125 packages who do this). xterm, as noted in the faq, uses a workaround -- Thomas E. Dickey <dic...@invisible-island.net> http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net
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