Slow startup as user on console

[Pavel Roskin]

On Wed, 14 Jan 2004, Jan Brezina wrote:

> Hallo,
>
> I have problem with mc 4.6.0 :
> GNU Midnight Commander 4.6.0
> Virtual File System: tarfs, extfs, cpiofs, ftpfs, fish, smbfs
> With builtin Editor
> Using system-installed S-Lang library with terminfo database
> With subshell support as default
> With support for background operations
> With mouse support on xterm and Linux console
> With support for X11 events
> With internationalization support
>
> When I start it from xterm or on console as root, it startup
> immediatly, but when I started it as user from console I must wait about
> 5sec. I have found in mail-list archive some similar problem connected
> with oafd (??), but this server run in both cases.
>
> Do you have some suggestion?

Check if DISPLAY is set.  Check if you can run X applications, such as
xterm.  Also you may want to try the same shell as the root users.

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Regards,
Pavel Roskin