Steps to speed-up gnome

USE XFT

Great new Gnome2 feature, AA We enable this by default

At /etc/X11/startDM.sh:

-export GDK_USE_XFT=0
+export GDK_USE_XFT=1

Update font cache, icon cahe

fc-cache -v -f gtk-update-icon-cache

Fontconfig

~/.fonts.config:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM "fonts.dtd">
<fontconfig>

<match target="font">
        <test name="size" compare="less_eq">
                <double>9</double>
        </test>
        <edit name="antialias" mode="assign">
                <bool>false</bool>
        </edit>
</match>
<match target="font">
        <test name="pixelsize" compare="less_eq">
                <double>9</double>
        </test>
        <edit name="antialias" mode="assign">
                <bool>false</bool>
        </edit>
</match>
<!-- 
Refer to fonts-conf(5) for more information.
-->

</fontconfig>