[Bug-XBoard] [bug #34202] xboard has a 20-second startup delay running with Ubuntu 11.04

[Richard Kircher]

URL:
  <http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?34202>

                 Summary: xboard has a 20-second startup delay running with
Ubuntu 11.04
                 Project: XBoard
            Submitted by: rkircher
            Submitted on: Sun 04 Sep 2011 03:21:11 AM GMT
                Category: None
                Severity: 3 - Normal
              Item Group: None
                  Status: None
                 Privacy: Public
             Assigned to: None
             Open/Closed: Open
         Discussion Lock: Any

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Details:

This is the same problem that has been reported on the web 
many times with no solution posted.  For example, it is 
described very well at: 
http://old.nabble.com/Extremely-slow-startup-td29341827.html

My startup time is 40-seconds, and is even slower.  It takes 20-seconds for
the xboard graphics to be shown and then 
another 20-seconds for the menus to be added and become 
functional.  

I think the problem is strongly related to Ubuntu 11.04 because
I have taken early versions (4.2.x) from an OpenSUSE 11.0 
installation and used it to replace the xboard executable in 
version 4.5.x in Ubuntu 11.04 and it changes from a startup 
time of about 1/2-second in openSUSE 11.0 to 40-seconds running under Ubuntu
11.04.

The delay may be in the video because I can't run Unity in 
Ubuntu 11.04 and use the older Gnome 2.0 with no special effects.  I think
Unity sucks, but for this problem I loaded 
Unity 2D and it had no effect on the xboard startup delay.

Otherwise the bug is the same as posted elsewhere on the web.  




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