./x11/xtoolwait [tool startup utility for X11]
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Version: 1.3, Package name: xtoolwait-1.3
Maintained by: The OpenBSD ports mailing-list
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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.

Filesize: 13.979 KB
Version History (View Complete History)
  • (2008-02-02) Updated to version: xtoolwait-1.3p0
  • (2006-07-21) Package added to openports.se, version xtoolwait-1.3 (created)
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   2019-07-12 14:51:31 by Stuart Henderson | Files touched by this commit (859)
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replace simple PERMIT_PACKAGE_CDROM=Yes with PERMIT_PACKAGE=Yes
   2015-01-17 20:16:09 by Christian Weisgerber | Files touched by this commit (3349)
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Drop remaining MD5/RMD160/SHA1 checksums.
   2010-10-24 15:15:37 by Antoine Jacoutot | Files touched by this commit (275)
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Remove USE_X11.
   2010-10-19 02:14:01 by Marc Espie | Files touched by this commit (260)
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USE_GROFF=Yes
   2010-07-30 00:59:02 by Antoine Jacoutot | Files touched by this commit (256)
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First pass at new REVISION/DEPENDS... not finished yet.
   2008-02-02 02:18:54 by Steven Mestdagh | Files touched by this commit (16)
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fix WANTLIB
   2007-09-15 14:04:29 by Michael Erdely | Files touched by this commit (312)
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Remove surrounding quotes in COMMENT/PERMIT_*/BROKEN
   2007-04-05 11:36:28 by Marc Espie | Files touched by this commit (363)
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more base64 checksums
   2006-02-10 03:26:56 by Steven Mestdagh | Files touched by this commit (1)
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use MASTER_SITE_XCONTRIB here
   2005-01-05 10:54:27 by Christian Weisgerber | Files touched by this commit (251)
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SIZE
   2004-12-17 08:03:19 by Aleksander Piotrowski | Files touched by this commit (31)
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Add WANLIB markers, part one
   2004-09-15 13:26:35 by Marc Espie | Files touched by this commit (206)
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new style plists
   2003-12-15 14:55:58 by Christian Weisgerber | Files touched by this commit (479)
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remove WWW lines
   2003-10-08 11:13:20 by Nikolay Sturm | Files touched by this commit (92)
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first bunch of license cleanup, some discussions about interpretation
during the release with pval@
other categories will follow once they are finished
   2002-10-29 12:49:00 by Christian Weisgerber | Files touched by this commit (81)
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No regression tests available.