David Coppa schrieb am 08.05.2014 15:26: > On Thu, May 8, 2014 at 2:46 PM, Nils R <m...@hxgn.net> 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. > > Suggestion: ditch zenity and use yad (ports/x11/yad) instead... > > my 2 cents, > David >
Thanks, i just tried yad, but it needs ~7 sec to start as well (from the command line), so no improvement :( Nils
