Re: Emacs locking up my X connection...
Re: Emacs locking up my X connection...
- Subject: Re: Emacs locking up my X connection...
- From: Bill Janssen <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 7 Dec 2010 10:23:07 PST
- Comments: In-reply-to Jeremy Huddleston <email@hidden> message dated "Tue, 07 Dec 2010 09:59:33 -0800."
Never heard of fontconfig before. Is this something that comes with XQuartz?
The Emacs manual is silent on how to configure it to use (or not use) fontconfig.
Bill
Jeremy Huddleston <email@hidden> wrote:
> 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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