Emacs in XWin is performing oddly

[Thomas Chadwick]

On Tue, 12 Nov 2002, Alexander Gottwald <alexander dot gottwald at s1999 dot 
tu-chemnitz dot de> wrote:

>>I have installed all of the cygwin emacs packages and I now am
>>experiencing problems with emacs with the X server.  Launching emaces
>>causes one of the following:
>>
>>1) the application never displays its window (CPU utilization to >100%)
>>2) the application displays its window but it is unresponsive (CPU
>>utilization to 100%)
>>3) About 1 in 4 times it runs correctly even after a clean reboot of the
>>PC
>
>Has anyone tested cygwin emacs with linux xserver?
>
>Does the same happen?

I don't have a Linux X-server nearby, but I do have AIXWindows running 
nearby.  I changed my DISPLAY variable and launched emacs.  It popped up 
very quickly on the AIXWindows display (much faster than I normally see in 
the XWin server).  However, pointer movement on the target display was 
sluggish, and the Win2k Task Manager says it is using upwards of 95% CPU all 
the time.

There is definitely something wrong with emacs in X11 mode, and I think this 
experiment shows that it's a client-side problem, not server-side.


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