Hey all,

I upgraded my X server to X.org 6.8.2 (from 6.7.something) and all went well...
...or so I thought! Except now when I run anything that uses GTK or Qt they run incredibly slowly...we're talking minutes to display the first window. I figured this might be because some apps were linking against libraries from my old version of X, so I removed all traces of X and GTK2 and reinstalled the lot. But I have the same problem.

Does anyone have any ideas before I lose patience and reinstall slackware (and all the stuff I've installed since last time I did this)?

This is a long shot, but, try running fc-cache as root, I had a problem like this on a kde desktop at work where it took ages for windows or (k)consoles to launch, turned out to be a broken font cache.

HTH

Mad.

Hmmmmm....

A few days ago I upgraded my Mandrake 10 from XFree 86 to xorg 6.8.2 and I have had a few anomalies since then (discussed in another thread).

I just checked based on your post, and I had two versions of fc-cache on the system; an old one in /usr/bin, and a new one in /usr/X11R6/bin.

I renamed the old one and put a link in /usr/bin to the new one. I wonder if that will solve my problems....

I will report back when I know

I think fc-cache runs as root in my startup script, but as soon as I get chance I'll try it. Anything's better than having to reinstall the whole OS for a stupid little problem like this!

Thanks for the suggestion.