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

[Thomas Dickey]

On Wed, 14 Apr 2010, Markus Hoenicka wrote:

> This is where I have seen xterm to spend most of its time. In your log, this 
> block of statements appears to be repeated several times for each font it 
> checks in /etc/fonts. This would explain why it is related somehow to fonts 
> in your case.

It's a known issue with the Athena widget set (technically in a 
lower-level library).

man xterm:

        menuLocale (class MenuLocale)
                 Specify  the  locale  used for character-set computations when
                 loading the popup menus.  Use this to  improve  initialization
                 performance of the Athena popup menus, which may load unneces-
                 sary (and very large) fonts, e.g., in a  locale  having  UTF-8
                 encoding.  The default is an empty string, which uses the cur-
                 rent locale setting.

                 Set it to "C"  to  achieve  the  best  performance  using  the
                 default  menu  resource  settings.   If you happen to be using
                 localized menu resources, set the resource accordingly.

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Thomas E. Dickey
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