Yup, it the AA fonts. So even with X 4.1.0 it's a hassle. Big bummer... ---------- Forwarded Message ---------- Subject: Re: [expert] KDE 2.2 apps take forever to load Date: Sun, 2 Sep 2001 14:32:27 -0500 From: Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] I wonder if this is the problem still with X 4.1.0, which is what I have? I'll have to look at the "me" and "root" configurations. On Sunday 02 September 2001 02:20 pm, Oscar wrote: > El Dom 02 Sep 2001 20:44, escribiste: > > On Sunday 02 September 2001 04:37 am, Oscar wrote: > > > El Dom 02 Sep 2001 10:09, escribiste: > > > > [snip] > > > > > I believe the problem is with font anti-aliasing. > > > Deactivate it in Control Panel and restart KDE. > > > Try it and tell us ;-) > > > > But AA was in KDE 2.1.1 and things worked fine. Why should > > it cause massive slowness in 2.2? > > I'm sorry, I don't know. I had this problem, and I thought that your > problem could be the same. > > I read this about the problem: > > "7) My kde programs start soooo slow? > Currently, X 4.0.3 has to parse the XftConfig file each time a > program is started. And the info of all these fonts has to be read. > Newer versions (in CVS) will use a cache and are much faster. > Especially if you have many fonts this can be a problem, and the only > real solution is to upgrade to a CVS version. " > (extracted from http://www.dexterslabs.com/danny/xft.html) > > Currently, with MandrakeFreq2, if I activate anti-aliasing, KDE apps > are slooooow (and the KDE start process, too). So I'm still waiting > for an X upgrade. > > Salu2 > Oscar. -- Sun Sep 2 14:30:35 2001 Seq. Timestamp Uptime ---- ------------------------ ------------ 1: Mon Jul 16 16:28:17 2001 - 43 07:21:59 - 2.4.6-3mdk 2: Thu May 17 01:44:04 2001 - 35 15:31:51 - 2.4.3-20mdk 3: Thu Jun 21 17:33:18 2001 - 10 05:29:02 - 2.4.3-20mdk 4: Sun Jul 1 23:03:05 2001 - 7 10:13:18 - 2.4.3-20mdk 5: Wed Jul 11 15:11:11 2001 - 5 01:16:26 - 2.4.6-3mdk 8: Sat Sep 1 08:55:55 2001 - 1 05:34:41 - 2.4.9 <<-- ------------------------------------------------------- -- Sun Sep 2 15:07:18 2001 Seq. Timestamp Uptime ---- ------------------------ ------------ 1: Mon Jul 16 16:28:17 2001 - 43 07:21:59 - 2.4.6-3mdk 2: Thu May 17 01:44:04 2001 - 35 15:31:51 - 2.4.3-20mdk 3: Thu Jun 21 17:33:18 2001 - 10 05:29:02 - 2.4.3-20mdk 4: Sun Jul 1 23:03:05 2001 - 7 10:13:18 - 2.4.3-20mdk 5: Wed Jul 11 15:11:11 2001 - 5 01:16:26 - 2.4.6-3mdk 8: Sat Sep 1 08:55:55 2001 - 1 06:11:21 - 2.4.9 <<--
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