On Wed, Aug 24, 2016 at 06:46:29PM +0200, Clemens Lang wrote: > On Tue, Aug 23, 2016 at 09:19:24PM -0400, Richard Cobbe wrote: > > Some time within the last month or so, urxvt (from the rxvt-unicode > > package) has become very slow to start, taking on the order of 20 > > seconds to display the window after I launch it. Once the window's > > up, everything works just fine: the shell or whatever program starts > > immediately, the window is responsive to user input, and the window > > disappears immediately after exiting the shell or whatever. > > Smells an aweful lot like a font-cache update going on in the > background. Start urxvt under opensnoop: > > Shell 1: sudo opensnoop -n rxvt-unicode (or whatever the process name is) > Shell 2: urxvt > > If it shows opening thousands of font files it's updating the font > cache. The question then would be why it doesn't keep the cache. Maybe > the location where it tries to put the cache isn't writable?
I see the same thing with "emacs +x11". If I revert the "fontconfig" package back to r149841, the problem goes away. -- Ken Preslan <k...@preslan.org> _______________________________________________ macports-users mailing list macports-users@lists.macosforge.org https://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-users