Re: Slow Control-K Over SSH-XWin
Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2001 09:40:41 -0500 (EST)
From: Jim Kinder <jkinder(a)cisco.com>
Sender: xemacs-beta-admin(a)xemacs.org
With the latest 21.4 releases if I run xemacs remotely
to my home Linux box from a Solaris box at work through
a SSH gateway, Control-K is VERY slow to respond. So much
so that I have to revert back to 21.1 for usable text editing.
This is a known problem (but not a bug) with the way Motif handles the
clipboard. It's a very network intensive process and is dog slow
across any slow network link. Use of the "Kill Region" and "Copy
region" commands are also impacted by this.
The easy fix is to add:
(setq x-selection-strict-motif-ownership nil)
to .xemacs/init.el.
This does have the side effect of removing the nice Motif clipboard
options, but it massively improves performance over a network.
R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer
Energy Sciences Network (ESnet)
Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab)
E-mail: oberman(a)es.net Phone: +1 510 486-8634