I have had a serious problem with GNOME apps on my slink system. They take 5-10 seconds to open - the GNOME terminal, the panel applets, etc. Non-GNOME apps open just fine. It's VERY annoying. I asked the GNOME list about it many times and no one replied. I know you guys are a little more helpful over here, so ...
An strace of gnome-session and gnome-terminal revealed two things: - Both programs try to open /etc/gnome/config-override/session and ./gnome/config-override/session about a thousand times and fail. Why would it do this so many times? Is there some way to resolve it? - Both programs read and write 32 bytes back and forth to a small file in my .gnome directory. Temp files are one thing, but these program write back and forth to the file several hundred times. What gives?
