On Mon, 2002-10-07 at 09:56, Christian Marillat wrote: > David Megginson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Christian Marillat writes: > > [...] > > > > This is already the case. See /usr/bin/gnome-wm > > > That, in fact, turns out to be the problem. No amount of messing with > > gconf keys or setting of environment variables fixed the delay for me > > (although it was closer to 10 seconds than 30). Simply renaming > > > /usr/bin/gnome-wm > > > to > > > /usr/bin/gnome-wm.SAFE > > > did the trick; now metacity starts instantly, without the delay. On a > > quick inspection, I cannot see what in the shell script was causing > > the problem.
> Can you do some more tests ? For what it's worth, I've been experiencing the same delay, but only when using a remote display - perhaps this is a clue. During the delay there is no network activity and no noticable CPU load on the server. -- Jason D. Hildebrand [EMAIL PROTECTED]
