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



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