FC2: gnome-terminal takes much longer to startup than Mozilla

[Will Cohen]

Jason Tackaberry wrote:
> On Tue, 2004-05-25 at 09:16 -0400, Will Cohen wrote:
> 
>>I wanted to see the number of major and minor page faults. Using "time" 
>>uses the shell's builtin time which doesn't return that information. 
>>Need to have the explicit path in there to avoid using the shell's builtin.
> 
> 
> It's funny how you can use *nix for years and years and still pick up
> little bits like that one, which seem like conventional wisdom.
> 
> It's also funny how you can use *nix for years and years, and think you
> know what you're talking about enough to second guess someone
> @redhat.com, and then promptly get put in your place. :)

Funny, I learned about passing xterm a command to execute from your 
email. :)

> Sheepishly,
> Jason.
> 

Seriously, your email was fine. I am sure there will be things that 
people will need to correct me on, and I did learn something from the email.

Remember the our goal is to improve the performance of the Linux 
Desktop, not to be correct every single time.

-Will

PS I learned today that gnome actually uses gnome-terminal rather than 
xterm.