From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: John A Pershing Jr Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: emacs opens after long time Date: Fri, 12 Jun 2009 13:45:33 -0400 Organization: Optimum Online Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1244840133 14185 80.91.229.12 (12 Jun 2009 20:55:33 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 12 Jun 2009 20:55:33 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jun 12 22:55:29 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-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 1MFDma-0003w9-RH for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 12 Jun 2009 22:55:28 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:39162 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MFDma-0003lm-Fc for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 12 Jun 2009 16:55:28 -0400 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.kjsl.com!news.alt.net!nx01.iad01.newshosting.com!newshosting.com!69.16.185.51.MISMATCH!tmp-post01.iad!news.highwinds-media.com!news.cv.net!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.3 (windows-nt) Cancel-Lock: sha1:tujyhXb+olhT0XNy3J8QHm8rJ/k= Original-Lines: 16 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 68.199.26.242 Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@cv.net Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:169987 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Fri, 12 Jun 2009 16:52:26 -0400 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:65220 Archived-At: tomer writes: > i have just installed ubunto and emacs. it takes about 30 seconds to > load emacs. and also the changing the font takes long time about 10 > seconds. Are you, perhaps, setting (changing) the font in your .emacs file? If so, then this is probably your problem. For reasons unknown to me, 'emacs' takes a long file to change fonts in an X environment. Rather than using (set-default-font ...) in .emacs, stick the font definition in your .Xresources file (key 'Emacs*font') and then use 'xrdb -load' to activate it. You will find that startup time is greatly improved! -jp