On Mon, 2008-05-12 at 22:58 +0800, John Summerfield wrote:
atm I have SL5 on two systems, I have IceWM on one of them. It seemed pretty quick (and I didn't see a problem with the menus), that was (in part) why I installed it on Fedora.
Here's what I do on my VM's: Install the both the icewm and the icewm-xdgmenu. Login once. (To generate the program list.) Create a local startup ($HOME/.icewm/startup) file that will only regenerates the menus if programs.programs.autogen is N days old. Shazam! icewm logs in within 1 second.
As for SL5, I'd venture and guess that are using IceWM's built-in gnome and/or KDE support. Sadly enough, I found that under Fedora, neither one generated satisfying results. (Missing applications; missing icons; etc) Only xdgmenu gave me the necessary flexibility I needed. (E.g. use custom font-sets)
... You could try icewm-gnome (also in the repos) and see if it works better for you.
- Gilboa