Cygwin Emacs-X uses 99% of cpu

Richard Campbell richard.campbell@air2web.com
Tue Nov 12 08:06:00 GMT 2002


>I installed X windows, WindowMaker, and the cygwin X11 emacs a few days
>ago and it seemed to work fine at that time.  But now when I try to run
>emacs from WindowMaker (or TWM) it starts sucking up all of the CPU (99%).
>If I run it in the background (via command line with & or RUN from the
>WindowMaker menu) no window appears.  If I run it from a command line not
>in the background, a window appears but it never seems to finish loading.

I have a similar problem.  
In rootless mode, I get a window either way (foreground or background), 
but also use 99% of the CPU either way as well.
In non-rootless mode, emacs works fine in foreground mode and takes over
the CPU in the background.

-Richard Campbell.

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