Hey Nick, I just tried multiple fonts, xft and non-xft ones...
DejaVu Sans Mono Bitstream Vera Sans Mono Terminus Monospace Courier New Consolas I have slow startup with all of them. On Sun, Apr 7, 2013 at 10:06 AM, Nick <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Igor, > > Quoth Igor Šarić: > > I just tested the commit Chris posted. > > > > Yes, that commit is the cause of the startup delay: > > The startup delay doesn't seem to be affecting most people. That > commit adds the font fallback mechanism if a glyph isn't found in > the current font (an incredibly useful feature). I wonder whether > the font you chose in config.h doesn't have the glyphs you tend to > use, and hence st quietly has to iterate through other fonts in the > cache to fond a more appropriate one. > > Can you try configuring a few different default fonts, and see if > that affects the startup time? "DejaVu Sans Mono" has a lot of > glyphs, maybe start with that. > > Nick > >
