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

[Daryl Spartz]

I uninstalled X, KDE and reinstalled. Running with X 4.3.0 and KDE 3.1(.2)
comes up fast the first time. Logged out and on another id, it was fast.
Logged out and back on to first id (root) and it is very slow. Rebooted and
tried both ids, both very slow. Don't know what is up.

"Andy Fawcett" <andy at athame.co.uk> wrote in message
news:200305200519.51382.andy at athame.co.uk...
> 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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