Ronald H Cohen wrote: > I have a further update on my observations -- does this inspire anyone with > some great wisdom?? > > I posted a question a few days ago, got no responses, but now have some more > data, and so hoping again someone will read and respond. > > I have installed xemacs from both macports and from fink (the latter is > 21.4.20) on my new MacBook Pro running Snow Leopard, and also the macports > one on a desktop G5 running Leopard. In all of these cases the startup of > the initial xemacs window is excruciatingly slow, several minutes. In all > cases I can start up in terminal mode (-nw) fast. And now I can add that > if I tell this xemacs to display on a remote host, it is fast -- even if the > remote host is in fact the SAME physical machine. (That is, if in an xterm I > do ssh -Y from my machine to itself, and then start up xemacs from within > that ssh session, the initial xemacs window comes up in just a few seconds!). > > So does anyone know what might be going on when xemacs displays to the local > x server directly?
Are you setting $DISPLAY (or any other X11 relevant envvar) in your ~/.bash*, ~/.profile, .xinitrc, or any other startup script? Hanspeter -- Hanspeter Niederstrasser hanspeter AT snaggledworks DOT com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
