On Fri, 13 Feb 2004 19:47:53 +0000, Paul Oldham growled: > On Fri, 13 Feb 2004 18:20:19 +0000, Andrew Farmer growled: > >> On Fri, 13 Feb 2004 08:35:22 -0800, Paul Oldham muttered: >> >>> Since I've gone to KDE3.2 there's now a pause of about 10 seconds >>> between clicking the link and Opera starting to move. I've now >>> eliminated Evolution from the equation: if I type "opera <url>" from a >>> shell there's a ten second pause, just like there is in Evolution, >>> before it says "opera: Activated running instance of Opera" and a >>> running instance of Opera bursts into life and opens the URL. [...] >>> >>> Has anyone else seen this? And do you have a cure? >> >> Try stracing the program to see if it's waiting for something obvious. >> Emerge strace if you don't have it already. > > Goooood call. I did that and now I know what's going on. I'm barking up > the wrong tree entirely. At the same time that I upgraded to 3.2 I > finally got around to installing all my TrueType fonts off my old > Windoze PC. I have a *lot* of fonts. According to strace Opera spends > most of those ten seconds examining every font I had installed.
Further investigation revealed that the fonts were in ~/.kde/fonts rather than being installed via the font installer in KDE3.2. So I removed all the fonts from ~/.kde/fonts and re-installed them using the KDE3.2 font installer and it's now getting going in a reasonable time. Result. Thanks Andrew. -- Paul Oldham ----------> http://the-hug.org/paul Milton villager ------> http://www.miltonvillage.org.uk/ and FAQ maintainer ---> http://the-hug.org/paul/camfaq.html "A verbal contract is as binding as the tape it's recorded on" -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
