Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: Joe Buehler Subject: Re: C-M combination in cygwin + rxvt + bash + emacs Date: Tue, 27 May 2003 09:26:12 -0400 Organization: Spirent Communications, Inc. Lines: 20 Message-ID: <3ED36774.9020602@hekimian.com> References: <3ECE1BDF.6090507@hekimian.com> Reply-To: jbuehler@hekimian.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; WinNT4.0; en-US; rv:1.4b) Gecko/20030507 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 0.75.0.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Adam Griffiths wrote: > Thanks for your reply Joe, if I run emacs (with the -nw switch) in an xterm > it work as expected, running emacs as an X11 program is incredibly slow on > my machine using Xfree86 or Vista Exceed as x servers. In fact it's so slow > that after 5 minuets I gave up waiting for the screen to display. There's something wrong there, it shouldn't be that slow. Make sure you are running the latest Cygwin emacs. The earlier versions loaded various startup LISP files while you waited. Later versions have all that preloaded in the executable. > Xfree86 is slower than Exceed, both seem to double in speed when I disable > Norton Antivirus (2003) but are still quite slow. Starting an Xterm with We have Norton diabled on our NT build machines at work -- it makes builds take twice as long. Intel must love it. -- Joe Buehler -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/