Hi misc@, i face a problem with zenity (from ports). I use it to read a string via a nice graphical popup (in my case, the url to a youtube video, which then gets opened in fullscreen mplayer).
Gnome is installed on my machine, although i don't use it very often. Anyway, zenity has a few dependencies on gnome (see http://ports.su/x11/gnome/zenity), and when i'm logged in to gnome, zenity starts within a second. Now, i seldomly use gnome, but dwm instead (a simple tiling manager). Also, i start dwm directly with a 'xinit' from the terminal, while i use gdm for gnome. >From dwm, zenity takes ~7 seconds (!) to start. The whole system is installed on a ssd (samsung 830) for that matter. Even worse, the startup time stays like that, whenever i (re)start zenity, so everything the system had to load seems to be gone immediately after the program exits. My questions are: - what can i do to improve the startup time of zenity? - if nothing can be done, are there any fast-starting alternatives? I only need to get a string from a graphical interface to a shell script. The script can be seen here [1]. Thanks, Nils [1]: https://bitbucket.org/drm00/bin/raw/5282894e9e2972bcf6a1332f04cf9c000cf75a60/dwm-helper/watch_online_videos.sh
