Re: Emacs locking up my X connection...
Re: Emacs locking up my X connection...
- Subject: Re: Emacs locking up my X connection...
- From: Jeremy Huddleston <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 7 Dec 2010 09:59:33 -0800
Yeah, that is likely the case. I would suggest configuring emacs to use fontconfig (client side fonts) instead. I thought that was default these days...
On Dec 7, 2010, at 09:47, Harald Hanche-Olsen wrote:
> + Bill Janssen <email@hidden>:
>
>> I've noticed that when I look at email like Rich Cook's, which has
>> gratuitous odd glyphs in the .sig, my X11 email reader locks up for over
>> a minute, but my router indicates furious network traffic between the
>> X11 client (mh-e runing in GNU Emacs 23.1 on a Mac Pro running OS X
>> 10.5, XQuartz 2.5.3) and the X11 server (XQuartz 2.5.3 on a Mac Pro
>> running OS X 10.5).
>
> In the distant past, I saw problems of this nature too. Snooping on
> the network connection, I determined that emacs likes to request a
> complete list of fonts from the X server at the slightest provocation.
> And the respons is quite long! I never found a solution. In my present
> setup, the problem does not arise, so I have stopped looking.
>
> - Harald
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