From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Oct 11 11:36:30 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id LAA01688 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 11 Oct 1997 11:36:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers) Received: from innocence.interface-business.de (innocence.interface-business.de [193.101.57.202]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id LAA01675 for ; Sat, 11 Oct 1997 11:36:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from j@uriah.heep.sax.de) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by innocence.interface-business.de (8.6.11/8.6.9) with UUCP id UAA13417 for freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG; Sat, 11 Oct 1997 20:36:12 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.7/8.8.5) id UAA19307; Sat, 11 Oct 1997 20:21:55 +0200 (MET DST) Message-ID: <19971011202155.MO14254@uriah.heep.sax.de> Date: Sat, 11 Oct 1997 20:21:55 +0200 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: xdm opening sequence [was Here's the start of a FreeBSD rock 'n roll anthem] References: <19971011191831.II60607@uriah.heep.sax.de> <199710111756.SAA01743@awfulhak.demon.co.uk> X-Mailer: Mutt 0.60_p2-3,5,8-9 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199710111756.SAA01743@awfulhak.demon.co.uk>; from Brian Somers on Oct 11, 1997 18:56:40 +0100 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Brian Somers wrote: > > Btw., recompute it to a .GIF of the desired size. This displays way > > faster than a JPEG. > > Thanks - I never realized that :-) It loads about 10 times faster > (and is only 3 times the size). I realized this when i was trying to optimize long xdm startup delay on a notebook. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)