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Xtoolwait - significantly speedup your .xsession
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.
--
Harvey J. Stein
Berger Financial Research
abel@netvision.net.il
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