BSD Ports

x11/xtoolwait 1.3_3 DragonFly

Tool startup utility for X11

System
DragonFly
Repository
DPorts
Maintainer
[email protected] (as in FreeBSD)
Categories
x11
Package size
6.6 KiB, 11.1 KiB installed

Description

This utility notably decreases the startup time of your X sessions, provided that you start a number of X clients automatically during the X session startup. Most people, for instance, start X clients like xterm, xclock, xconsole and xosview from their .xinitrc, .openwin-init, .xtoolplaces or .xsession file.

These X clients are started simultaneously (in the background) which puts a high load on the X server and the OS:

* The X server is not multi-threaded, so all X clients are competing to get access to the X server and to use its resources, which causes a lot of overhead (= delay).

* The performance of other (non X related) tasks served by the system degrades badly due to the high load. If the system has not enough RAM to hold all the X clients, it is swapping heavily, resulting again in a lot of delay.

On the Sun platform there is a utility called 'toolwait' which solves these problems: it starts one X client in the background, waits until it has mapped a window and then exits.

Xtoolwait is a free implementation of exactly the same idea.

In the other systems

SystemPortVersion
DragonFlyx11/xtoolwait1.3_3
FreeBSDx11/xtoolwait1.3_3
OpenBSDx11/xtoolwait1.3p1
NetBSDx11/xtoolwait1.3nb2

Install

Binary package:

pkg install xtoolwait

From DPorts:

cd /usr/dports/x11/xtoolwait && make install clean

Dependencies

Run dependencies 2

No port depends on this one.

Configuration

No options to configure.

Service scripts
none

Message after installing

===>   NOTICE:

The xtoolwait port currently does not have a maintainer. As a result, it is
more likely to have unresolved issues, not be up-to-date, or even be removed in
the future. To volunteer to maintain this port, please create an issue at:

https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla

More information about port maintainership is available at:

https://docs.freebsd.org/en/articles/contributing/#ports-contributing