On Saturday 17 November 2001 10:02 pm, John McNulty wrote:
The problem seems to be that every KDE application that has a font selector, re-reads the entire font list, processes it so as to display the font name in its own font, and then caches it. It takes a long time to process and munches a lot of CPU in the process, and you have repeat copies of this over and over.
I don't think that applies to my problem (see bellow), but it does does apply to the problem of the original poster of this thread. BTW, your diagnosis of his problem seems to me like quite a brilliant piece of debugging, do you mind telling me how you managed to figure it out? :-)
I now have a second problem, one of my own making. I loaded 1,316 TTF fonts onto the system. It now takes 30 secs -> 1min to login, start any
Use /usr/X11R6/bin/fetchmsttfonts to load fonts from MS on the internet that are the same fonts used by most websites (such as Times New Roman and Arial) and other programs expect.
I have a problem in speed in initializing KDE, not in running programs. It usually waits during the last step, the part when it's supposed to be restoring the previous desktop; it freezes at 50% for a while before