Re: [gentoo-user] Slow application start, LC_CTYPE and XCreateFontSet

2008-07-23 Thread Vladimir G. Ivanovic
Initially I had similar behavior as you, except that en_US.UTF-8 was faster and others slower (my laptop is a 1.8 GHz AMD64). But, after repeated invocations of 'time xterm ...' all versions settled down to the same value: ~0.25 seconds. Maybe you should post your question on some X-related

[gentoo-user] Slow application start, LC_CTYPE and XCreateFontSet

2008-07-21 Thread Zdenek Travnicek
Hello, I've installed new laptop few weeks ago and everything is running fine except for all (most?) X applications taking few seconds to start. I've tracked the problem down with ltrace to XCreateFontSet() call that blocks for more than 2 seconds. Searching on google lead me some forums about