I compiled my own Fluxbox on r121, and it loads in ~15 seconds with Feh and Torsmo. You could try doing the same, it's really easy.
I did compile it. No speed increase in beta3 or pdaxii13.
Fluxbox does load, but it takes about 1 minute and 20 seconds (Not as long as you describe, but still quite long).
The only version that works for me is 9.10 as I mentioned in the other thread. I think I probably had similar load times in beta3 on my 3200, but since I've been using pdaxii13, fluxbox is a lot slower, and everything else is a lot faster.
I had a lot of packages on CF and SD, and that would take about five minutes for "ipkg-link" to figure out on every card insert.
After switching to pdaxii13, where most packages are installed on the internal microdrive, the "ipkg-link" wait-time is reduced to nearly nothing. But fluxbox is that much slower. This is the only program that seems so much slower for me.
It's really frustrating because I just can't bring myself to embrace openbox, which runs very smoothly. It gets in my way for all kinds of things.
I'm an electrical engineering student in university, and I do almost all of my school work on my Zaurus. I spend a lot of time taking screenshots of my notes and books which are heavily ridden with diagrams and mathematical typography that just isn't possible to represent in ASCII without TeX formatting So I spend a lot of time with LaTeX and DVIPNG compiling toolchains, and this is sometimes just too slow compared to just using:
import Equation098.png Which lets me take screenshots of just tiny little rectangles in my display that I won't have to crop later on.
Openbox (or XFCE) won't let me switch windows around very easily without displaying a lot of useless information such as which workspace I'm on and what the title of the window is that I just switched to, whereas "lighter" window managers such as blackbox, twm, or fluxbox just stay out of my way.
I'm sure there are some configuration options to change this behavior in openbox, but I already spend what I feel is far too much time RTFMing when I have a lot of higher priority tasks, and fluxbox, used to just work for me, whereas as of beta3, it's a little annoying.
I used to use blackbox way back when... I used this for WinXP a lot too.
Click here if you're interested. But I've since grown really accustomed to fluxbox's tabs, and it's kinda difficult for me to go without them.
Besides, I can't find the "bbkeys" package anywhere, and it seems to refuse to build from source code for me right now, without recompiling the blackbox source code, which I spent awhile last night trying to do, but ultimately gave up on after a lot of errors on "iconv".
No guarantees dor 2.4.x kernels, but it may work.
I've been putting off upgrading to rc121 until it seems a little more stable. Looks like my best bets for now are just to switch back to standard beta3 or learn to deal with openbox.
Well, hopefully that's not too much ranting for you all. Thank you for your input everyone, it does help a lot. Please keep me informed (on this thread) if you use pdaxii13 on a 3200 with fluxbox.
