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Re: No Terminal Opening
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Re: No Terminal Opening


  • Subject: Re: No Terminal Opening
  • From: Jeremy Huddleston <email@hidden>
  • Date: Sat, 28 Jun 2008 03:08:43 -0700

I could well be impatient -- yesterday in order to control for that, I launched X11 and then brewed myself a cup of coffee thinking that the several minutes ought to be enough -- it wasn't. Anyway, in today's attempt at self control, 12 minutes ago I launched X11 and I'm still waiting for a terminal, CPU pegged at 100% w/ X11 running 85%. Hmmm ... Is that patient enough? ;-)

That's a known kernel bug.

After that little experiment, I commented out the the parts in startx relating to the font cache. I couldn't shut X11 down, so I restarted -- except it kept blocking the shutdown.

So maybe it was taking a while (you were impatient) to cache fonts...

Anyway, eventually I got the system down and rebooted, clicked X11 and it started up with a terminal in less than 30 seconds. However, when I shut X11 down and restarted, it wouldn't open a terminal and pegged the processor. So I've rebooted again and because I still have work to do, will stop experimenting.

What is the font cache for anyway? Is that useful only if I'm running X apps locally -- does it do anything with respect to remote sessions?

Both (depending on which font cache you mean) ... fontconfig is client- side (so just apps running locally). The X server also has its own font cache for server-provided fonts.
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