emacs startup time under gnome?

[Charles Curley]

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
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: not available
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 189 bytes
Desc: not available
URL: <http://listman.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/attachments/20070321/3e3f244c/attachment-0001.sig>