# The x11/xtoolwait port

## xtoolwait-1.3p0 – tool startup utility for X11

## 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.

WWW: http://www.hacom.nl/~richard/software/xtoolwait.html

Categories:
  x11

## Library dependencies

## Build dependencies

- STEM->=1.21:textproc/groff

## Run dependencies