From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Rodgers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: Re: X-windows performance over slow connections. Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2007 23:17:22 -0700 Message-ID: References: <1169163354.8383.55.camel@localhost> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1169273854 21776 80.91.229.12 (20 Jan 2007 06:17:34 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 20 Jan 2007 06:17:34 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jan 20 07:17:32 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-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 1H89Xf-0000I5-Qf for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 20 Jan 2007 07:17:32 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1H89Xf-0003zZ-Ef for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 20 Jan 2007 01:17:31 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1H89Xd-0003yU-H8 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 20 Jan 2007 01:17:29 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1H89Xb-0003wO-N9 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 20 Jan 2007 01:17:28 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1H89Xb-0003wC-Eq for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 20 Jan 2007 01:17:27 -0500 Original-Received: from [80.91.229.2] (helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.52) id 1H89Xa-0002Co-F4 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 20 Jan 2007 01:17:26 -0500 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1H89XV-0001UX-LA for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 20 Jan 2007 07:17:21 +0100 Original-Received: from c-24-9-156-178.hsd1.co.comcast.net ([24.9.156.178]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 20 Jan 2007 07:17:21 +0100 Original-Received: from kevin.d.rodgers by c-24-9-156-178.hsd1.co.comcast.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 20 Jan 2007 07:17:21 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-To: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-Lines: 33 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: c-24-9-156-178.hsd1.co.comcast.net User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.9 (Macintosh/20061207) In-Reply-To: X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:15538 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii wrote: >> From: Bill Zaumen >> Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2007 15:35:54 -0800 >> >> When I run ssh -C -X to connect to my home system over an ADSL >> connection (unfortunately, in the 'slow' direction), it takes >> well over a minute to start emacs. I suspect this is due to the >> menu, toolbar, scrollbars, and other X-windows features it uses. >> Compression helps slightly, but is not quite enough. I tried >> to fix the problem by defining an environment variable named >> EMACS_NET_PROFILE which, if defined, has the value "slow", "medium" >> or "fast" to denote the speed of one's connection. For slower >> connections, it then turns off scroll bars, tool tips, menus, and >> the tool bar based on the value of this variable. Functionally, >> this works as one would expect, however over a slow connection, I >> can see the tool bar appear and then eventually go away: it seems >> that the tool bar is created before my .emacs file is read, so >> emacs takes about as long as before to get started. > > Did you try the advice in etc/PROBLEMS? Look for "Improving > performance with slow X connections". It would be good if the exact X resource settings were listed there, as they are for other problems. > As for turning off various decorations, I think if you disable them in > your X resources, they will never come up. I think etc/PROBLEMS should show exactly how to disable them. -- Kevin Rodgers Denver, Colorado, USA