<context> I emailed awhile back re gnome apps taking forever to come up and noting network access thrash while waiting </context>
During one of the debian unstable upgrades I lost esound/esd daemon auto start capability (I've always had it installed on my system) or the gnome apps became dependent on it. In any case, I noticed that root gnome apps were fast and lacked the network thrash. I followed up on another clue re esound and noted that it was _not_ running in the background. If I now crank up esd from a root window with esd & I lose xfce sound but gnome apps are happy in non-root X. So, I current questions are: 1) clues re configuring Xfce to route window sounds through esd? 2) clues re how esd is supposed to crank up when X server starts and perhaps what might have happened to block same? thanks Heitzso
