This is not a new issue, but at some point in the past year or so, my
xterm startup time got much much longer. I never really thought about it
until now because I thought I just needed to defrag my hard drive or
something, but I've just done a whole bunch of spring cleaning and it's
still
Solved my own problem. I ran fc-cache and now xterm kicks off in under a
second... I have:
dir/cygdrive/c/windows/fonts//dir
In my /etc/fonts/local.conf so there's quite a few fonts to scan, which I
guess explains the delay. Question: the man page for fontconfig (man
fonts-conf) states
