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andre.ramaciotti

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Registered: 2007-04-06

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urxvt taking too much time to start [solved]

It gives no error message, and takes way much more time to startup then xterm. Any idea of what might be the fault?

(I've tried mrxvt, it starts very quickly, but I found it a little ugly, and had some problems with accented characters).

Last edited by andre.ramaciotti (2007-12-15 21:32:54)

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Husio

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Registered: 2005-12-04

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Re: urxvt taking too much time to start [solved]

Did you try to use urxvtd?

andre.ramaciotti

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Registered: 2007-04-06

Posts: 649

Re: urxvt taking too much time to start [solved]

I've just tried, without any visible effect. (yes, then I called it with urxvtc)

Last edited by andre.ramaciotti (2007-12-09 00:35:38)

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delaril

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Registered: 2007-02-11

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Re: urxvt taking too much time to start [solved]

I had the same problem after upgrading xorg a while ago. There was an entry in .Xdefaults for enabling true transparency in urxvt, when no compositing was available. Removing the line solved it for me.

andre.ramaciotti

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Registered: 2007-04-06

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Re: urxvt taking too much time to start [solved]

I think it's not the case, because my .Xdefaults has only options about the cursor theme and xterm. urxvt is running with default options, and turning transparency on or off (urxvt -tr) doesn't change the time to start up.

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ss2

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Registered: 2007-10-05

Posts: 83

Re: urxvt taking too much time to start [solved]

The font is causing the long start, if you are not using the default one. I had that issue for a long time untill I added the following line to my .Xdefaults:

urxvt*font:                 xft:Bitstream Vera Sans Mono:pixelsize=11

Since then the terminal schocks me, because it starts to fast. ;-)

The next point is to use it in server and client mode. That allows more instances not letting the memory footprint to get bigger and maks it snappier. But this point isn't really important since I don't recognize any difference on my 7 year old box.

Regards

Last edited by ss2 (2007-12-13 20:41:42)

andre.ramaciotti

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Re: urxvt taking too much time to start [solved]

It did help, but it still taking about 3x the time xterm takes to start. Before it, it was taking ~4x.

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ss2

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Registered: 2007-10-05

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Re: urxvt taking too much time to start [solved]

Maybe there is another problem, because it is fast here. But I don't know how xterm reacts, since I've never used it.

andre.ramaciotti

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Registered: 2007-04-06

Posts: 649

Re: urxvt taking too much time to start [solved]

Someone can check how quickly 'idle', the IDE that bundles with python, starts?

idle and xmaxima seems to take too much time here, though they pretty simple applications.

From what I remember of Slackware, urxvt was pretty fast to start. I'll reinstall it in another partition to see if I'm not wrong.

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andre.ramaciotti

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Re: urxvt taking too much time to start [solved]

I installed it, but what I used was rxvt, not urxvt. But idle does start faster in slackware than it starts here (it uses TCL/TK).

[OT]Something that really impressed me was that I started fluxbox using only 26MB of RAM in Slackware.[/OT]

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andre.ramaciotti

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Re: urxvt taking too much time to start [solved]

% ifconfig
eth0 ...

lo        Link encap:Local Loopback
          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
          inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
          RX packets:90 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:90 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
          RX bytes:5902 (5.7 Kb)  TX bytes:5902 (5.7 Kb)

Up and running

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andre.ramaciotti

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Re: urxvt taking too much time to start [solved]

I was messing with my xorg.conf because of the problems with blender (there's another topic about that), and now urxvt is loading quicker than xterm. It also solved the slowness of idle and xmaxima, though I don't know what exactly was the cause of the problem.

(No, blender still doesn't work correctly)

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