There are several pages for it, but I have this one working:
https://github.com/dlitz/xtoolwait

Xtoolwait notably decreases the startup time of an X session by reducing the load on the X server and the OS.

It starts an X client in the background, waits for a window to be mapped on the root window, and then exits. It can improve performance for users who start a bunch of X clients automatically (for example, xterm, xlock, xconsole, whatever) when the X session starts.

See my .xinitrc for how I use it.

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2007-07-14 - 1.3 on PCLinuxOS 2007

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\apt-get  install  xutils-dev  libx11-dev  libxtst-dev
\xmkmf
# This produces an error, but it is safe to ignore it.
\make
\make  install
\make  install.man

Though the first make gives me errors, they can apparently be ignored:

errors from make

gcc -m32 -g -O2 -fno-strict-aliasing         -Dlinux -D__i386__ -D_POSIX_C_SOURCE=199309L 				-D_POSIX_SOURCE -D_XOPEN_SOURCE 				-D_BSD_SOURCE -D_SVID_SOURCE                                 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 				  				  -DFUNCPROTO=15 -DNARROWPROTO       -c -o xtoolwait.o xtoolwait.c
In file included from /usr/include/stdio.h:27:0,
                 from xtoolwait.c:20:
/usr/include/features.h:148:3: warning: #warning "_BSD_SOURCE and _SVID_SOURCE are deprecated, use _DEFAULT_SOURCE" [-Wcpp]
 # warning "_BSD_SOURCE and _SVID_SOURCE are deprecated, use _DEFAULT_SOURCE"
   ^~~~~~~
rm -f xtoolwait
gcc -m32 -o xtoolwait -g -O2 -fno-strict-aliasing       xtoolwait.o    -lXext -lX11   
rm -f xtoolwait._man
if test -z "true" ; then \
   cd `dirname xtoolwait` && \
   ln -s `basename xtoolwait.man` `basename xtoolwait._man`; \
else \
      	     cpp -undef -traditional  -D__apploaddir__=/etc/X11/app-defaults -D__filemansuffix__=5x -D__osfilemansuffix__=5 -D__libmansuffix__=3x -D__oslibmansuffix__=3 -D__mansuffix__=1x -D__osmansuffix__=1 -D__syscallmansuffix__=2x -D__ossysmansuffix__=2 -D__gamemansuffix__=6x -D__osgamemansuffix__=6 -D__miscmansuffix__=7x -D__osmiscmansuffix__=7 -D__admmansuffix__=8x -D__osadmmansuffix__=8 -D__miscmansuffix__=7x -D__osmiscmansuffix__=7 -D__drivermansuffix__=4x -D__osdrivermansuffix__=4 -D__adminmansuffix__=8 -D__projectroot__=/usr -D__xconfigfile__=xorg.conf -D__xconfigdir__=/usr/lib/X11 -D__xlogfile__=Xorg -D__xservername__=Xorg -D__appmansuffix__=1x -D__xorgversion__="\"`echo 7 7 0 | sed -e 's/ /./g' -e 's/^/Version\\\ /'`\" \"X Version 11\"" -D__vendorversion__="`echo 7 7 0 | sed -e 's/ /./g' -e 's/^/Version\\\ /'` X.Org"  \
     < xtoolwait.man | sed -e '/^#  *[0-9][0-9]*  *.*$/d' 			-e '/^#line  *[0-9][0-9]*  *.*$/d' 			-e '/^[ 	]*XCOMM$/s/XCOMM/#/' 			-e '/^[ 	]*XCOMM[^a-zA-Z0-9_]/s/XCOMM/#/' 			-e '/^[ 	]*XHASH/s/XHASH/#/' 			-e '/\@\@$/s/\@\@$/\\/' >xtoolwait._man; \
fi
<stdin>:57:0: error: invalid preprocessing directive #Startup
<stdin>:61:0: error: invalid preprocessing directive #Restore
<stdin>:62:0: error: invalid preprocessing directive #Do
<stdin>:69:0: error: invalid preprocessing directive #Wait

Maybe it works, maybe it doesn't. I don't think it's the answer to the problem I have, which is to have multiple terminals using dialog to appear in a specific order.

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xtoolwait

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