On Sat, 2003-04-12 at 15:21, Dinesh Nadarajah wrote: > metacity & > exec gnome-session
get rid of 'metacity&', gnome-session will start the window manager for you > But this resulted in a 4 minute delay. The Gnome log > on logo comes and then sits with the Window Manager > icon for some time before continuing. Is there > something else to be done for it. seems to me this issue has come up frequently on the list, check the archives. May be that running fc-cache as root helps. > Also, I installed my TTF fonts by inserting the font > path in ~/.xftconfig file. Is this the correct way? putting the fonts into ~/.fonts should be the right way (or /usr/share/fonts for systemwide installs)
