X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,KHOP_THREADED,SPF_NEUTRAL,TW_BF,TW_BG,TW_GT,TW_GV,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <4FC8AE15.1030309@cornell.edu> Date: Fri, 01 Jun 2012 07:57:09 -0400 From: Ken Brown User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:12.0) Gecko/20120428 Thunderbird/12.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: Performance problems with emacs-X11 in current cygwin (attn: glib and gvim maintainer) References: <4FC7D9E6 DOT 5050609 AT alice DOT it> <4FC8A0E4 DOT 9000308 AT cornell DOT edu> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-PMX-CORNELL-SPAM-CHECKED: Pawpaw X-Original-Sender: kbrown AT cornell DOT edu - Fri Jun 1 07:57:37 2012 X-PMX-CORNELL-REASON: CU_White_List_Override X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Id: 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 [Reformatted. Please don't top-post.] On 6/1/2012 7:20 AM, xxx AT xxx wrote: > On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 1:00 PM, Ken Brown wrote: >> >> On 5/31/2012 4:51 PM, Angelo Graziosi wrote: >>> >>> My upgrade regarded these packages: >>> >>> _autorebase-000069-1.tar.bz2 >>> _update-info-dir-01051-1.tar.bz2 >>> fftw3-3.3.2-1.tar.bz2 >>> glib2.0-networking-2.32.3-1.tar.bz2 >>> gsettings-desktop-schemas-3.4.2-1.tar.bz2 >>> gtk3-demo-3.4.3-1.tar.bz2 >>> gvfs-1.12.3-1.tar.bz2 >>> libfftw3-devel-3.3.2-1.tar.bz2 >>> libfftw3_3-3.3.2-1.tar.bz2 >>> libglib2.0-devel-2.32.3-1.tar.bz2 >>> libglib2.0_0-2.32.3-1.tar.bz2 >>> libgtk3-devel-3.4.3-1.tar.bz2 >>> libgtk3_0-3.4.3-1.tar.bz2 >>> libsasl2-2.1.25-1.tar.bz2 >>> libsasl2-devel/libsasl2-devel-2.1.25-1.tar.bz2 >>> libssh2-devel/libssh2-devel-1.4.2-1.tar.bz2 >>> libssh2_1-1.4.2-1.tar.bz2 >>> xterm-279-1.tar.bz2 >>> >>> I suspect gvfs, gtk3, libglib2... but I can't downgrade anything. >> >> >> I found an XP system that hadn't been upgraded in a few weeks, and I >> upgraded libglib2.0_0 but nothing else. This was enough to trigger the >> problem. I can reliably reproduce it as follows: >> >> 1. Start the X server (on an XP system) via the Start Menu shortcut. >> >> 2. Install emacs-X11-23.4-2, and start emacs under X. >> >> 3. Type 'C-x b RET' to switch to the *scratch* buffer. >> >> 4. Press and hold one key. It echoes once, but the "repeated" key strokes >> don't get echoed until you release the key. >> >> Fortunately for emacs users, the problem doesn't seem to occur with >> emacs-24. (Can anyone else confirm this?) But that doesn't help the gvim >> users who have reported similar problems. >> >> Yaakov, could you take a look? Maybe you could also make the previous >> version of libglib2.0_0 available so that users can downgrade until this >> gets resolved. > Sorry, I have the same issue with emacs24 You're right, I spoke too soon. But the problem is definitely not as bad on my XP system with emacs-24. Now when I press and hold a key, it gets echoed in chunks, a few characters at a time. I don't have to wait until I release the key before seeing the characters. Ken -- 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