Version 1.2.1070 is very slow to load on my system

Hi all,
since I updated to preview versions of Rstudio > 1.2 Rstudio hangs for a few second at startup, making it much slower to start. Once it is loaded, everything works as fast as expected.

Here is the diagnostic report:

[1] "1.2.1070"

$R
[1] "/usr/bin/R"

$pdflatex
[1] "/usr/bin/pdflatex"

$bibtex
[1] "/usr/bin/bibtex"

$gcc
[1] "/usr/bin/gcc"

$git
[1] "/usr/bin/git"

$svn
[1] "/usr/bin/svn"

R version 3.5.1 (2018-07-02)
Platform: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu (64-bit)
Running under: Arch Linux

Matrix products: default
BLAS: /usr/lib/libblas.so.3.8.0
LAPACK: /usr/lib/liblapack.so.3.8.0

locale:
 [1] LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8       LC_NUMERIC=C               LC_TIME=en_GB.UTF-8        LC_COLLATE=en_GB.UTF-8     LC_MONETARY=en_GB.UTF-8    LC_MESSAGES=en_GB.UTF-8   
 [7] LC_PAPER=en_GB.UTF-8       LC_NAME=C                  LC_ADDRESS=C               LC_TELEPHONE=C             LC_MEASUREMENT=en_GB.UTF-8 LC_IDENTIFICATION=C       

attached base packages:
[1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base     

loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
[1] compiler_3.5.1  tools_3.5.1     packrat_0.4.9-3

SysInfo:
                                      sysname                                       release                                       version 
                                      "Linux"                        "4.18.16-arch1-1-ARCH" "#1 SMP PREEMPT Sat Oct 20 22:06:45 UTC 2018" 
                                     nodename                                       machine                                         login 
                                  "NUC2-ALEX"                                      "x86_64"                                        "alex" 
                                         user                                effective_user 
                                       "alex"                                        "alex" 

R Version:
               _                           
platform       x86_64-pc-linux-gnu         
arch           x86_64                      
os             linux-gnu                   
system         x86_64, linux-gnu           
status                                     
major          3                           
minor          5.1                         
year           2018                        
month          07                          
day            02                          
svn rev        74947                       
language       R                           
version.string R version 3.5.1 (2018-07-02)
nickname       Feather Spray               
$CINNAMON_VERSION
[1] "3.8.9"

$CLICOLOR_FORCE
[1] "1"

$DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS
[1] "unix:path=/run/user/1000/bus"

$DESKTOP_SESSION
[1] "cinnamon"

$DISPLAY
[1] ":1"

$EDITOR
[1] "vi"

$ftp_proxy
[1] "http://192.168.2.2:3128"

$GDM_LANG
[1] "en_GB.UTF-8"

$GDMSESSION
[1] "cinnamon"

$GIO_LAUNCHED_DESKTOP_FILE
[1] "/usr/share/applications/rstudio.desktop"

$GIO_LAUNCHED_DESKTOP_FILE_PID
[1] "4179"

$GIT_ASKPASS
[1] "rpostback-askpass"

$GJS_DEBUG_OUTPUT
[1] "stderr"

$GJS_DEBUG_TOPICS
[1] "JS ERROR;JS LOG"

$GNOME_DESKTOP_SESSION_ID
[1] "this-is-deprecated"

$GTK_MODULES
[1] "canberra-gtk-module"

$GTK_OVERLAY_SCROLLING
[1] "0"

$HOME
[1] "/home/alex"

$http_proxy
[1] "http://192.168.2.2:3128"

$https_proxy
[1] "http://192.168.2.2:3128"

$KDEDIRS
[1] "/usr"

$LANG
[1] "en_GB.UTF-8"

$LD_LIBRARY_PATH
[1] "/usr/lib64/R/lib::/lib:/usr/lib/jvm/java-7-openjdk/jre/lib/amd64/server"

$LN_S
[1] "ln -s"

$LOGNAME
[1] "alex"

$MAIL
[1] "/var/spool/mail/alex"

$MAKE
[1] "make"

$MOZ_PLUGIN_PATH
[1] "/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins"

$no_proxy
[1] "localhost,127.0.0.1,127.0.1.1,local.home"

$PAGER
[1] "/usr/bin/less"

$PATH
[1] "/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/lib/jvm/default/bin:/usr/bin/site_perl:/usr/bin/vendor_perl:/usr/bin/core_perl"

$PWD
[1] "/home/alex"

$QT_DIR
[1] "/usr/lib/rstudio/bin"

$QT_PLUGIN_PATH
[1] "/usr/lib/rstudio/bin/plugins"

$QT_QPA_PLATFORM_PLUGIN_PATH
[1] "/usr/lib/rstudio/bin/plugins/platforms"

$R_BROWSER
[1] "/usr/bin/xdg-open"

$R_BZIPCMD
[1] "/usr/bin/bzip2"

$R_DOC_DIR
[1] "/usr/share/doc/R/"

$R_GZIPCMD
[1] "/usr/bin/gzip"

$R_HOME
[1] "/usr/lib64/R"

$R_INCLUDE_DIR
[1] "/usr/include/R/"

$R_LIBS_SITE
[1] ""

$R_LIBS_USER
[1] "~/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/3.5"

$R_PACKRAT_DEFAULT_LIBPATHS
[1] "/home/alex/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/3.5:/usr/lib/R/library"

$R_PACKRAT_SITE_LIBRARY
[1] ""

$R_PACKRAT_SYSTEM_LIBRARY
[1] "/usr/lib64/R/library"

$R_PAPERSIZE
[1] "a4"

$R_PDFVIEWER
[1] "/usr/bin/xdg-open"

$R_PLATFORM
[1] "x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"

$R_PRINTCMD
[1] ""

$R_RD4PDF
[1] "times,inconsolata,hyper"

$R_SESSION_TMPDIR
[1] "/tmp/Rtmp85GswU"

$R_SHARE_DIR
[1] "/usr/share/R/"

$R_SYSTEM_ABI
[1] "linux,gcc,gxx,gfortran,?"

$R_TEXI2DVICMD
[1] "/usr/bin/texi2dvi"

$R_UNZIPCMD
[1] "/usr/bin/unzip"

$R_ZIPCMD
[1] "/usr/bin/zip"

$RMARKDOWN_MATHJAX_PATH
[1] "/usr/lib/rstudio/resources/mathjax-26"

$RS_PPM_FD_READ
[1] "19"

$RS_PPM_FD_WRITE
[1] "20"

$RS_RPOSTBACK_PATH
[1] "/usr/lib/rstudio/bin/rpostback"

$RS_SHARED_SECRET
[1] "16816927778469308861804289383"

$RSTUDIO
[1] "1"

$RSTUDIO_CONSOLE_COLOR
[1] "256"

$RSTUDIO_CONSOLE_WIDTH
[1] "180"

$RSTUDIO_PANDOC
[1] "/usr/lib/rstudio/bin/pandoc"

$RSTUDIO_SESSION_PORT
[1] "39192"

$RSTUDIO_USER_IDENTITY
[1] "alex"

$RSTUDIO_WINUTILS
[1] "bin/winutils"

$SED
[1] "/usr/bin/sed"

$SESSION_MANAGER
[1] "local/NUC2-ALEX:@/tmp/.ICE-unix/759,unix/NUC2-ALEX:/tmp/.ICE-unix/759"

$SHELL
[1] "/bin/bash"

$SHLVL
[1] "0"

$SSH_AUTH_SOCK
[1] "/run/user/1000/keyring/ssh"

$TAR
[1] "/usr/bin/tar"

$TERM
[1] "xterm-256color"

$USER
[1] "alex"

$USERNAME
[1] "alex"

$WINDOWPATH
[1] "2"

$XAUTHORITY
[1] "/run/user/1000/gdm/Xauthority"

$XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP
[1] "X-Cinnamon"

$XDG_RUNTIME_DIR
[1] "/run/user/1000"

$XDG_SEAT
[1] "seat0"

$XDG_SESSION_DESKTOP
[1] "cinnamon"

$XDG_SESSION_ID
[1] "2"

$XDG_SESSION_TYPE
[1] "x11"

$XDG_VTNR
[1] "2"

 [1] ".GlobalEnv"        "tools:rstudio"     "package:stats"     "package:graphics"  "package:grDevices" "package:utils"     "package:datasets"  "package:methods"  
 [9] "Autoloads"         "package:base"     

Sounds very similar to https://github.com/rstudio/rstudio/issues/2362. Do you have a large number of fonts installed?

Not sure but possible (TeX)... but I am now running RStudio 1.2.1330, and the problem has disappeared.

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