p.s. I started up xemacs with activity monitor open. After about 1 sec of activity, the activity monitor settled down to the same mostly idle state as before starting up. So it appears that xemacs is in a wait state, waiting for something (what?) to happen.
Ron ----- Original Message ----- From: Douglas Dickinson <dougla...@gmail.com> Date: Tuesday, September 29, 2009 1:37 pm Subject: Re: [Fink-beginners] xemacs supposedly installed, but where? To: Ronald H Cohen <rhco...@lbl.gov> Cc: Alexander Hansen <alexanderk.han...@gmail.com>, fink-beginners@lists.sourceforge.net > I'm not an expert on fink, but A couple of xemacs possibilities > occur to me... > > [0] Open `Activity Monitor.app` and set "update frequency" to *very* > often. During the wait period is xemacs consuming a lot of CPU? or is > it idle? > [1] Is there anything in your ~/.xemacs/ dir? > * try renaming this dir before starting xemacs > (stray junk here could be: reading from remote volumes; or loading > some weird library that takes awhile) > > [1b] Is there a ~/.emacs file? > * try renaming it before starting xemacs > (under certain conditions xemacs will fall back and read this) > > [2b] "sumo" contains a bazillion extensions that you probably don't > need / want. > * try fink-removing 'sumo' and fink-installing only the extensions > that you need (`fink list | grep emacs`) > + another way is to install packages inside running xemacs > (instead of via `fink`): Menu: tools --> packages... > > Happy Hacking, > ./ddd > -- > "Why, oh why, didn't I take the *blue* pill?" > > > > > On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 08:58, Ronald H Cohen <rhco...@lbl.gov> wrote: > > X is already started; I start xemacs from a running xterm. And > no the second time seems no faster (or anyway not significantly > faster) than the first. I also get the same behavior with a G5 > tower running Leopard, and xemacs 21.4.22 from macports (which I > had installed last week). > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: Alexander Hansen <alexanderk.han...@gmail.com> > > Date: Tuesday, September 29, 2009 8:07 am > > Subject: Re: [Fink-beginners] xemacs supposedly installed, but > where?> To: Ronald H Cohen <rhco...@lbl.gov> > > Cc: monipol <moni...@gmx.com>, fink-beginners@lists.sourceforge.net > > > >> 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>> morethan once to start it? Also, does that "several > minutes" also > >> includestarting 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 > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
