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Date:      Tue, 05 Dec 2006 14:00:31 -0500
From:      Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Leonardo Midolo <leo_midolo@yahoo.it>
Cc:        freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Gnome became slow
Message-ID:  <4575C1CF.5070709@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <1165331188.1153.28.camel@wyld.homeunix.net>
References:  <1165331188.1153.28.camel@wyld.homeunix.net>

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Leonardo Midolo wrote:
> Hi,
> yesterday I've noticed that many gnome applications became suddenly
> really slow to start up (15-20 seconds, before they took 2-3 s). 
> Also the entire gnome startup became slow (around 2/3 minutes).
> I'm running gnome 2.16 (compiled from ports and up to date) on FreeBSD
> 6.2 RC1.
> I think this happened after a power outage, but I'm not sure.
> All non-gnome applications still run fine (apache, postgres, firefox,
> mplayer...).
> Gnome-terminal works fine but takes a long long time to open new tabs.
> I recompiled gconf and gnome-session but nothing changed. I've also read
> the faq "why gnome is so slow...", but my configuration seems ok. I
> can't understand what happened and what to do to restore gnome's
> original speed. 

Try running "fc-cache -f -v" as root.  If that doesn't work, try
"gtk-update-icon-cache -q -f /usr/local/share/icons/gnome".

Joe

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Joe Marcus Clarke
FreeBSD GNOME Team	::	gnome@FreeBSD.org
FreeNode / #freebsd-gnome
http://www.FreeBSD.org/gnome
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