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Re: Xtoolwait - significantly speedup your .xsession





On Wed, 26 Mar 1997, Harvey J. Stein wrote:

> Amos Shapira writes:
>  > Hi,
>  > 
>  > I just got around to install xtoolwait and I must recommand this to
>  > everyone who runs more than one client in their .xsession.  This thing
>  > made my .xsession finish running faster than I could say "RedHat
>  > sucks" (:-).
>  > 
>  > There's a Debian package for it (that's how I found about it), dunno
>  > about RedHat.  The authors home page (with a link to download the
>  > source) is at http://www.hacom.nl/~richard/
> 
> The low tech version is to do things like:
> 
> ( sleep 5 ; xterm ) &
> ( sleep 10 ; xclock ) &
> ( sleep 15 ; xosview ) &
> 
> in your .xsession, putting the clients you want first with the
> shortest sleeps, and experimenting with the sleep times to get each
> one to start after the previous one comes up.
> 

How about add next to .fvwmrc ?

Function "InitFunction"
    	Module  "I"     GoodStuff
	Module	"I"	FvwmBacker
	Exec 	"I" 	exec emiclock 
	Wait 	"I" 	emiclock
	Exec 	"I" 	exec xterm 
       	Wait 	"I" 	xterm 
EndFunction


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