Ronald H Cohen wrote: > Thank you, I followed the instruction and now I have an xemacs. But it is > excruciatingly slow to start up an xwindow; several minutes. (starting up in > -nw mode inside a terminal is fine). I had the same experience installing a > newer xemacs with macports. This is on a new MacBook Pro running snow > leopard. An older (macports) installation on an older MBP running Leopard > runs fine. Anyone know what might be going on? > > I've seen one-time slow startups in the past with some X apps. After the app is first run, successive starts were much quicker. My understanding is that fonts are being cached, etc. Have you tried more than once to start it? Also, does that "several minutes" also include starting X?
On the other hand, I just installed xemacs on a Macbook running 10.5, and it started promptly (less than a second if X was already running, about three seconds if ran the from Terminal.app and X had to start. So there could be something specific to Snow Leopard going on here. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Come build with us! The BlackBerry® Developer Conference in SF, CA is the only developer event you need to attend this year. Jumpstart your developing skills, take BlackBerry mobile applications to market and stay ahead of the curve. Join us from November 9-12, 2009. Register now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/devconf _______________________________________________ Fink-beginners mailing list Fink-beginners@lists.sourceforge.net http://news.gmane.org/gmane.os.apple.fink.beginners
