Re: X-windows performance over slow connections.

[Kevin Rodgers <kevin.d.rodgers@gmail.com>]

Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> From: Bill Zaumen <zaumen@pacbell.net>
>> Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2007 15:35:54 -0800
>>
>> When I run ssh -C -X to connect to my home system over an ADSL
>> connection (unfortunately, in the 'slow' direction), it takes
>> well over a minute to start emacs.  I suspect this is due to the
>> menu, toolbar, scrollbars, and other X-windows features it uses.
>> Compression helps slightly, but is not quite enough.  I tried
>> to fix the problem by defining an environment variable named
>> EMACS_NET_PROFILE which, if defined, has the value "slow", "medium"
>> or "fast" to denote the speed of one's connection.  For slower
>> connections, it then turns off scroll bars, tool tips, menus, and
>> the tool bar based on the value of this variable.  Functionally,
>> this works as one would expect, however over a slow connection, I
>> can see the tool bar appear and then eventually go away: it seems
>> that the tool bar is created before my .emacs file is read, so
>> emacs takes about as long as before to get started.
> 
> Did you try the advice in etc/PROBLEMS?  Look for "Improving
> performance with slow X connections".

It would be good if the exact X resource settings were listed there,
as they are for other problems.

> As for turning off various decorations, I think if you disable them in
> your X resources, they will never come up.

I think etc/PROBLEMS should show exactly how to disable them.

-- 
Kevin Rodgers
Denver, Colorado, USA