On Wed, Mar 21, 2007 at 09:42:47AM -0400, Tom Horsley wrote: > Before I go binary searching lisp files, does anyone know why emacs > goes into a blank stare for about thirty seconds during startup when > running under a gnome session? > > If I run a frill-free X session under a plain fvwm window manager, > emacs has gotten started by the time I get my finger off the return > key. > > If I run the same emacs under a gnome login, at some point during > startup it pauses for an excessive time, then finally finishes up. > > If I build an emacs from straight GNU source with no redhat patches > or add-on lisp files, it can startup under a gnome session with no > long pauses. > > This leads me to believe something "helpful" redhat adds to emacs is > interacting with gnome in some irritating way. Redhat provides a default .emacs, and you may well have your own. Try launching emacs with no initialization files and see what that does. I believe emacs does some font twiddling on the way up. That may affect startup times. -- Charles Curley /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign Looking for fine software \ / Respect for open standards and/or writing? X No HTML/RTF in email http://www.charlescurley.com / \ No M$ Word docs in email Key fingerprint = CE5C 6645 A45A 64E4 94C0 809C FFF6 4C48 4ECD DFDB
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