[Kde-nonlinux] Re: KDE 3.1/FBSD 4.8 slow start

[Andy Fawcett]

Hi,

Some points to note here about KDE on FreeBSD 4.8:

1. Upgrade your packages, including Xft and fontconfig. These have had 
improvements made since those distributed with 4.8. You may as well 
know that the KDE-FreeBSD team (http://freebsd.kde.org) has just 
released KDE 3.1.2 into the FreeBSD system too, so it might be worth 
updating to that too (I recommend it!)

2. Run "fc-cache -f" as root, before you start KDE, after upgrading the 
packages above.


This _should_ fix the problem for you.

Regards,

Andy


On Saturday 17 May 2003 00:29, Daryl Spartz wrote:
> I also have FreeBSD 4.8 and KDE 3.1 and have slow startup. Mine
> delays at "Initializing peripherals", then the splash screen
> disappears and another long wait (2 minutes maybe), then desktop
> appears. Apps are also extremely slow starting, but once up are fine.
> Other window managers come up fine, like wmaker, icewm, twm.
>
> Daryl Spartz
> spartz at us.ibm.com
>
> "Andrew R" <routerpimp at yahoo.com> wrote in message
> news:20030425030011.31457.qmail at web41008.mail.yahoo.com...
>
> > Always - and it's a fresh INSTALL of the entire OS and
> > WM.
> >
> > --- Waldo Bastian <bastian at kde.org> wrote:
> > > On Thursday 24 April 2003 18:57, Andrew R wrote:
> > > > Would it be running that _every_ time?  If so,
> > >
> > > where
> > >
> > > > can I make that stop?
> > >
> > > Normally it should only do a quick check. Try
> > > running "kbuildsycoca" from a
> > > command prompt and see if that takes about as long.
> > > Compare that with the
> > > time taken by "kbuildsycoca --checkstamps
> > > --incremental", that's the command
> > > that runs at startup of KDE.
> > >
> > > Does KDE always start slow or only after a fresh
> > > reboot?
> > >
> > > Cheers,
> > > Waldo
> > > --
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