[K12OSN] icewm slow to launch apps

[Brian Beck]

Rob Owens wrote:

>First let me say that this problem is on my home machine which is running Mandrake 10.0
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>IceWM is taking a long time to launch any application.  Even simple ones like the KPPP internet dialer.  Ice itself loads up quickly as usual, but when compared w/ KDE, IceWM is taking much longer to load an application.  And if I load an app, close it, and then re-open it, it still takes a long time (I thought it would have been in RAM and load much faster the 2nd time).
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>Any ideas why this might be?  I don't think it has always been this way on my machine, but I cannot swear to it.
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>-Rob
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That's because most of the applications you mention (such as KPPP) are 
part of KDE and use many of KDE's libraries.  When you run KDE, all of 
these libraries are loaded into RAM - making KDE bulkier with resources 
and slower to initially load, but making KDE's applications (like KPPP) 
start quicker inside it.  There's really no way around it.  If you have 
to for some reason load a second copy of KPPP you would see that it 
loaded as quick as you were used to.