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Re: Emacs load time, font selection delay.
From: |
Dave Pawson |
Subject: |
Re: Emacs load time, font selection delay. |
Date: |
Tue, 21 Aug 2007 11:58:08 +0100 |
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
--
Dave Pawson
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