emacs-x11 takes 30-40 sec to open after upgrading to cygwin-1.7

Jon TURNEY jon.turney@dronecode.org.uk
Mon Mar 29 16:16:00 GMT 2010


On 29/03/2010 11:33, Dan Tsafrir wrote:
> After I've upgraded to cygwin-1.7 my emacs takes 30-40 seconds to
> open. Following
> http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/cygwin-x-faq.html#poor-performance,
> disabling my antivirus has no affect on emacs's opening time. As far
> as I can tell other X programs behave similarly to the way they did
> before the upgrade. Any help would be appreciated. The output of
> 'cygcheck -s -v -r' is attached.

LANG = 'C.UTF-8'

You are probably being bitten by [1]

As far as I can tell, this is a general problem with X, but cygwin 
unfortunately encounters it in a default install because (a) the default 
locale is a UTF-8 locale, and (b) we don't install the CJK fonts by default.

Workarounds you might try are (a) install the font packages font-isas-misc, 
font-jis-misc and font-daewoo-misc (and restart your server), or (b) set your 
locale to a non-UTF-8 one.

We need to do something about this, but as the discussion in the bug should 
make clear, we're not sure what :-)

[1] http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=10948

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