From: Tim X <timx@nospam.dev.null>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: emacs 22 horribly slow over vpn/dsl
Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2007 14:14:10 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87r6ohq06l.fsf@lion.rapttech.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: ygfk5uaui6p.fsf@invalid.invalid
Mark Hood <invalid@invalid.invalid> writes:
> Mark Hood <invalid@invalid.org> writes:
>> I had been using Emacs 21.3 over a 1500/768 kbps DSL line through
>> VPN to an X11 server running on Windows XP in my home office without
>> a problem, but with the new version, it's horribly slow. Startup
>> takes forever, and C-v takes about 2 seconds.
>
> It looks like the vertical scrollbars are the culprit for the 2 sec
> page scroll. I turned them off and Emacs became usable again.
> Startup still takes forever though.
>
> Apparently the GTK+ scrollbars in Emacs 22 are very heavyweight. The
> Emacs 21 I was using was built with the X Toolkit scrollbars and it
> works much better for remote X11 usage.
>
> 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.
>
> I miss the lightweight scrollbars so I guess I'll have to build Emacs
> 22 or 21 myself. I'll probably stick with 21 since it seemed to start
> much faster.
>
> -- Mark
You can build emacs 22 with the old X toolkit rather than GTK+, which should
give about the same performance as you had with emacs 21.
The other thing to consider would be to use one of the X compression utilities.
When I had to run X over a slow connection, I found this made the connection
very usable. I can't remember the exact name, but it was something like X
differential compression protocol (xdcp?) or something similar.
Tin
--
tcross (at) rapttech dot com dot au
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-06-12 4:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-06-11 23:46 emacs 22 horribly slow over vpn/dsl Mark Hood
2007-06-12 0:31 ` Mark Hood
2007-06-12 0:46 ` Mark Hood
2007-06-12 4:16 ` Tim X
2007-06-12 6:37 ` Mark Hood
2007-06-12 20:23 ` Giorgos Keramidas
2007-06-12 14:28 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-06-12 18:37 ` Kim F. Storm
2007-06-12 4:14 ` Tim X [this message]
2007-06-13 20:53 ` Peter Lee
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