changeset 75433:34fa35e88871

More details about disabling features that hamper performance with slow X connections.
author Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
date Sat, 27 Jan 2007 18:12:50 +0000
parents b17465653dc8
children c686b42fabf5
files etc/PROBLEMS
diffstat 1 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) [+]
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--- a/etc/PROBLEMS	Sat Jan 27 18:01:15 2007 +0000
+++ b/etc/PROBLEMS	Sat Jan 27 18:12:50 2007 +0000
@@ -1263,7 +1263,20 @@
    package.
 
 2) If the connection is very slow, you might also want to consider
-   switching off scroll bars, menu bar, and tool bar.
+   switching off scroll bars, menu bar, and tool bar.  Adding the
+   following forms to your .emacs file will accomplish that, but only
+   after the the initial frame is displayed:
+
+    (scroll-bar-mode -1)
+    (menu-bar-mode -1)
+    (tool-bar-mode -1)
+
+   For still quicker startup, put these X resources in your .Xdefaults
+   file:
+
+    Emacs.verticalScrollBars: off
+    Emacs.menuBar: off
+    Emacs.toolBar: off
 
 3) Use ssh to forward the X connection, and enable compression on this
    forwarded X connection (ssh -XC remotehostname emacs ...).