Re: [tlug] why so slow?

[Pietro Zuco <pietro@example.com>]

Hello.
Thankyou! I tried xtoolwait and for example kmail and other x applications 
start faster. In the .xinitrc file I put exec startkde first and after the 
lines that the man xtoolwait tells to write. In that man say: " Startup the 
window manager first" that would means that I have to write exec startkde 
before the rest of the lines right?

Pietro.


On Tuesday 02 July 2002 05:22, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:

> As pointed out, MS preloads certain crucial (to its marketing and
> legal defense) programs into memory.  This is why Linux typically
> starts up in a 10th of the time of Windows (and much of the time taken
> by Linux is the distro's stock install kernel trying to init drivers for
> nonexistent hardware ;-).
>
> Most *nix apps support multiple windows, and some kind of IPC
> protocol.  I forget what it is with Netscrap/Mozzerilla, but there is
> a protocol to send an URL to a running browser.  X?Emacs has
> gnuclient.  So if you _know_ you're going to be using the app a lot,
> you start it at login, go get some coffee, and thereafter configure to
> use the IPC protocols to create new windows quickly not start new
> instances slowly.  Eg, for X?Emacs, just set EDITOR=gnuclient in your
> environment and everything is easy.
>
> (Note to vi abusers:  I'm just talking about what I know; of course
> EDITOR=vi works just as fast, but not as well ;-) And that's a new
> instance of vi, which doesn't help Pietro understand the idea.)
>
> Also, you can often reduce startup time by use of xtoolwait, which
> typically reduces the amount of time for windows to appear so that you
> can do some work.  The total startup time can actually be slightly
> longer, but you don't have to wait for your xdaliclock (which takes
> forever to appear) to pop up before the first xterm does.