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Re: mcedit start slowly lately


On Tue, 17 Aug 2004, Krzysztof Duleba wrote:

> Pavel Tsekov wrote:
>
> >> I'm experiencing somewhat strange behaviour of mcedit. It's been a week
> >> that before it's started, my HDD is working a lot, for about 1 second.
> It
> >> doesn't matter whether I want to edit some old file or just launch the
> >> editor with "$ mcedit".
> >
> > Where do you start mcedit from - console, xterm, rxvt (X/noX) ?
>
> >From bash.
>
> > Is the DISPLAY environment variable set ?
>
> No. Should it be?

It does matter if you run MC from rxvt without X server. In this case
rxvt sets the DISPLAY variable though there is no actual X server
running. This fact puzzles MC which tries to connect to the nonexistent X
server resulting in a certain delay on startup.

Please, let me know if you notice the slowdown again - I'll try to help
you debug the problem.

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