From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Rodgers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: Re: X-windows performance over slow connections. Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2007 23:53:35 -0700 Message-ID: References: <1169163354.8383.55.camel@localhost> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1169448845 11913 80.91.229.12 (22 Jan 2007 06:54:05 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2007 06:54:05 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jan 22 07:54:03 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1H8t40-0005Fb-W4 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 22 Jan 2007 07:53:57 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1H8t40-0002D6-ML for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 22 Jan 2007 01:53:56 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1H8t3f-000240-Bw for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 22 Jan 2007 01:53:35 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1H8t3d-00020P-Li for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 22 Jan 2007 01:53:34 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1H8t3d-000209-Gh for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 22 Jan 2007 01:53:33 -0500 Original-Received: from [80.91.229.2] (helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.52) id 1H8t3d-00009t-0w for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 22 Jan 2007 01:53:33 -0500 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1H8t3Z-00019I-Mg for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 22 Jan 2007 07:53:30 +0100 Original-Received: from c-24-9-156-178.hsd1.co.comcast.net ([24.9.156.178]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 22 Jan 2007 07:53:29 +0100 Original-Received: from kevin.d.rodgers by c-24-9-156-178.hsd1.co.comcast.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 22 Jan 2007 07:53:29 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-To: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-Lines: 51 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: c-24-9-156-178.hsd1.co.comcast.net User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.9 (Macintosh/20061207) In-Reply-To: X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:15545 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii wrote: >> From: Kevin Rodgers >> Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2007 23:17:22 -0700 >>> 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. > > Patches are welcome. *** etc/PROBLEMS~ Sat Dec 16 10:18:07 2006 --- etc/PROBLEMS Sun Jan 21 23:49:18 2007 *************** *** 1263,1269 **** package. 2) If the connection is very slow, you might also want to consider ! switching off scroll bars, menu bar, and tool bar. 3) Use ssh to forward the X connection, and enable compression on this forwarded X connection (ssh -XC remotehostname emacs ...). --- 1263,1282 ---- package. 2) If the connection is very slow, you might also want to consider ! switching off scroll bars, menu bar, and tool bar. This can be ! accomplished after the initial frame is displayed with these forms in ! your .emacs file: ! ! (scroll-bar-mode -1) ! (menu-bar-mode -1) ! (tool-bar-mode -1) ! ! Or for quicker startup, with these X resources in your .Xdefaults ! file: ! ! Emacs.verticalScrollBars: off ! Emacs.menuBar: off ! Emacs.toolBar: off 3) Use ssh to forward the X connection, and enable compression on this forwarded X connection (ssh -XC remotehostname emacs ...). -- Kevin Rodgers Denver, Colorado, USA