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From: Zak Johnson <zakj AT nox DOT cx>
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Subject: Re: Slow performance following upgrade
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Lev Bishop wrote:
> On 3/23/07, Zak Johnson wrote:
> >I first blamed XFT, as it manifested itself most obviously when starting
> >XFT applications;
> 
> fc-cache helps?

fc-cache fails:

    $ fc-cache
    /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts: failed to write cache
    /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi: failed to write cache
    /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF: failed to write cache
    /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1: failed to write cache
    /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/encodings: failed to write cache
    /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/encodings/large: failed to write cache
    /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc: failed to write cache
    /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/util: failed to write cache

The user running fc-cache owns and has write permission on all those
directories.  strace available at http://nox.cx/cygwin .

-Zak

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