On Thu, May 08, 2014 at 02:46:02PM +0200, Nils R wrote: > 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.
x11/gxmessage -- Antoine
