Fernando Pérez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> > I rebuilt those same RPMS locally on an 8.0 system.  You need to
> > remember that Xemacs 21.4.0 is a "Gamma" release -- somewhere between
> > beta and stable.  Furthermore, the GTK support is most definitely beta
> > (As an example, I get no scroll bars in my xemacs-gtk windows :p).
> > 
> > That said, in my locally compiled copy, the menus were slower than with
> > plain xemacs, but it has to do with the GTK implementation -- they seem
> > to recreate the widgets as needed.  On a slow system that can slow
> > things down, but I see nothing like the 20-30 seconds you describe on my
> > P200 (running XFree86-FBDev-3.3.6)
> > 
> 
> Weird. Yesterday I built Xemacs 21.4.1 myself from the original tarballs
> (not the rpms) and I still get the same ungodly slow behavior (PIII-450,
> 256Mb RAM). I wonder what it may be. Anyway, it will be nice when gtk
> support stabilizes, in the meantime I'll just use the regular Xemacs 21.4
> from the cooker rpms. The non-gtk one behaves fine, and the improvements
> over the previous version (whatever was in 8.0) are really nice: *much*
> better menu structure, shift-keys highliting, buffer tabs, etc. I love it.
> 
> Thanks to those who looked into it.

I packaged the 21.4.2, but gtk toolbar still seems to make it segfaulting.

However it seems to be better if you disable the toolbar (by putting

(custom-set-variables
 '(toolbar-visible-p nil)
)

in ~/.xemacs/custom.el

-- 
Warly

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