Re: emacs 22 horribly slow over vpn/dsl

[no-spam@cua.dk (Kim F. Storm)]

Mark Hood <invalid@invalid.invalid> writes:

> Mark Hood <invalid@invalid.invalid> writes:
>> Interestingly, the -D and --basic-display startup options don't seem
>> to have any effect on the scrollbars; Emacs starts up with a
>> heavyweight display always.
>
> Well, apparently my .emacs was overriding the -D and --basic-display
> options.  They work with -q.
>
> So the only problem I have with Emacs 22 is the slow startup on remote
> X11 connections.  Hopefully that will be resolved when I build my own
> Emacs 22 with the X Toolkit and debug my .emacs a bit more.

I have this in my .emacs:

(add-to-list 'default-frame-alist '(wait-for-wm . nil))
(add-to-list 'initial-frame-alist '(wait-for-wm . nil))
(modify-frame-parameters nil '((wait-for-wm . nil)))

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