X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_50,DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,FREEMAIL_FROM,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,TW_WY X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: Date: Sun, 13 Nov 2011 13:06:40 -0500 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Microsoft Word with Zotero or Endnote makes cygwin terminal EXTREMELY slow reading keyboard input From: Philip Goetz To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by delorie.com id pADI70iV002412 On Sun, Nov 13, 2011 at 12:39 PM, Philip Goetz wrote: > I have a Windows XP system, with a quad-core AMD Phenom II X4 940. > I re-installed XP about 6 months ago, and have been using Cygwin on it > ever since. > Starting yesterday, the Cygwin terminal is extremely slow. > This has nothing to do with X, or fork, or network mounts (I have none anyway). > When I type a key, it takes about half a second for the letter to appear > in the Cygwin terminal window.  If I keep typing, letters appear > at about one-fourth the speed that I'm typing, so I get far ahead, > and it starts dropping letters.  It's like working over a slow modem, > but this is all local. The culprit is Endnote X.0.2. I found the Word STARTUP folder (Word: Tools -> Options -> File locations -> Startup), closed Word, moved the Zotero.dot files (the Zotero plugin) out of it, re-started Cygwin, started Word, still slow. Then I shut Word down, moved the EN10Cwyw files (the EndNote plugin) out of STARTUP, re-started Word, and Cygwin was slow again. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple