How would I make/do/move GTK+/pango to a cron job?

irgunII · 04-26-2014, 04:32 PM

I read on another thread that someone was planning on doing this, by making a cron job and/or script to take the GTK+/pango update part out of Rc.M to speed up the boot.

I too have a pretty big slow-down during boot at the GTK+/pango part of boot and would like to make that a cromn job to be checked maybe once a week or something.

Any ideas how to do this? I'm no programmer of any sort, just a simple user on a single computer.

Woodsman · 04-26-2014, 05:28 PM

* As root, use a text editor to open the /etc/rc.d/rc.M.
* Save As /etc/cron.daily/pango.
* Delete everything in the newly saved /etc/cron.daily/pango except the header and the pango snippets.
* Save.

You should end up with something like this:

Code:

#!/bin/sh
# /etc/cron.daily/pango

# These GTK+/pango files need to be kept up to date for
# proper input method, pixbuf loaders, and font support.
if [ -x /usr/bin/update-gtk-immodules ]; then
  /usr/bin/update-gtk-immodules --verbose
fi
if [ -x /usr/bin/update-gdk-pixbuf-loaders ]; then
  /usr/bin/update-gdk-pixbuf-loaders --verbose
fi
if [ -x /usr/bin/update-pango-querymodules ]; then
  /usr/bin/update-pango-querymodules --verbose
fi

# All done.

Then be sure to comment out the same snippet in /etc/rc.d/rc.M.