From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Mar 4 22: 9:16 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from albatross.prod.itd.earthlink.net (albatross.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.120]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0AD6037B405 for ; Mon, 4 Mar 2002 22:09:14 -0800 (PST) Received: from dialup-166.90.70.85.dial1.chicago1.level3.net ([166.90.70.85] helo=there) by albatross.prod.itd.earthlink.net with smtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 16i88G-0007hf-00; Mon, 04 Mar 2002 22:09:05 -0800 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Bob Giesen To: "Christian Nelson" , Subject: Re: Troubles with XFree86 Date: Tue, 5 Mar 2002 00:08:30 -0600 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.3] References: <033401c1c408$3ced9470$0100a8c0@freestylin> In-Reply-To: <033401c1c408$3ced9470$0100a8c0@freestylin> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-Id: Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Monday 04 March 2002 11:40 pm, Christian Nelson wrote: > I don't know if this is the proper mailing list for this question, > so if it isn't, please let me know of the proper one. If you'r using FBSD, it can't hurt. If you don't find your answers here, you might want to try gnome-list@gnome.org... > Im running XFree86 4.10_12 with the latest version (from ports) of > Gnome and IceWM. > > Certain programs will open up immediately while others will take up > to 15 minutes. For example, gkrellm, netscape6, etc. will open up > immediately, but when I try to open gaim or xchat, they take up to > 15 minutes to open. X doesn't lock up during this time at all, and > no excessive CPU usage occurs. This wasn't happening before, but > suddenly after I rebooted, it started occurring, but only with > these certain programs. Can anyone give me any clues as to why this > would occur? This is just a shot in the dark... Are you trying to laucnh these apps with a launcher (rather than from the command line) and do you have xalf installed? (xalf is used for X Application-Launching Feedback.) I found that Netscape 4.51 wouldn't open -- but, then, I never had the patience to give it 15 minutes. :-) Someone on the gnome-list kindly informed me of the xalf problem, so I wrote a wrapper for xalf that will bypass the real xalf for executables with which xalf has a problem. I'll be gald to send it to you, if you'd like to give it a whirl. -- "All animals are equal; some animals are more equal than others." -- George Orwell, Animal Farm To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message