From: "Dave Pawson" <dave.pawson@gmail.com>
To: "Johan Bockgård" <bojohan+news@dd.chalmers.se>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Emacs load time, font selection delay.
Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2007 11:58:08 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <711a73df0708210358u1bc59a61nd5b26a1a2c3e8603@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <yoijsl6dgpqi.fsf@gamma02.me.chalmers.se>
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Hi Johan!
On 21/08/07, Johan Bockgård <bojohan+news@dd.chalmers.se> wrote:
> > The culprit seems to be my font selection?
> Does this help?
>
> ** Emacs pauses for several seconds when changing the default font.
>
> This has been reported for fvwm 2.2.5 and the window manager of KDE
> 2.1. The reason for the pause is Xt waiting for a ConfigureNotify
> event from the window manager, which the window manager doesn't send.
> Xt stops waiting after a default timeout of usually 5 seconds.
>
> A workaround for this is to add something like
>
> emacs.waitForWM: false
>
> to your X resources. Alternatively, add `(wait-for-wm . nil)' to a
> frame's parameter list, like this:
>
> (modify-frame-parameters nil '((wait-for-wm . nil)))
>
> (this should go into your `.emacs' file).
Now loads as it used to.... very nearly instantaneous!
Many thanks.
Much appreciated.
regards
--
Dave Pawson
XSLT XSL-FO FAQ.
http://www.dpawson.co.uk
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2007-08-21 10:13 ` Emacs load time, font selection delay Johan Bockgård
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