On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 00:39, Jon TURNEY <jon.tur...@dronecode.org.uk> wrote: > >> I've conducted a few repeated measurements and it looks as though >> setting LANG to be en_US somewhat reduces the start time of emacs-x11: >> instead of ~30 seconds with LANG=C.UTF-8, it take ~27 seconds >> LANG=en_US. While this is ~10% less, waiting 27 seconds for emacs to >> open still seems unreasonable. >> >> Any other ideas? > > Hmm.... > > You don't have any emacs fonts being set via ~/.Xdefaults or ~/.Xresources?
Actually, I do. However, following the suggestion of Ken Brown http://www.mail-archive.com/cyg...@cygwin.com/msg107126.html I've invoked emacs with -Q (and also, just to make sure, removed my ~/.Xdefaults). It did not change anything: emacs still takes ~30 seconds to open. What else? ---Dan -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ FAQ: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/