[7472] in SIPB bug reports
Re: Problem in exmh
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Roger A. Roach)
Sun Jan 9 15:43:24 2000
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To: Jacob Morzinski <jmorzins@MIT.EDU>
Cc: "Roger A. Roach" <rar@MIT.EDU>, bug-sipb@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 09 Jan 2000 15:36:14 EST."
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Date: Sun, 09 Jan 2000 15:43:20 -0500
From: "Roger A. Roach" <rar@MIT.EDU>
That work great. Thanks!!!
Roger
> On Sun, 9 Jan 2000, Roger A. Roach wrote:
> > By the way, I notice that it takes up to two minutes for me to quit exmh
> > which xmh goes away immediately. Is there any way I can change that?
>
> Interesting that you should mention that. Someone unrelated had also
> been having problems with exmh being slow to exit. The reason his exmh
> was slow that he had a long list of saved window positions -- long
> enough that Tcl's N^2 processing time started to be noticeably harmful.
>
> I don't know if you are having the same problem, but you could test
> it by clearing out the saved-window-positions list, and seeing if
> exmh gets faster.
>
> To do this, you'd use exmh's
> "Preferences" button,
> then "Windows and scrolling" entry,
> and then set the "Remember window placement" to OFF.
>
> Quit exmh and restart. With luck, you should be back to fast behavior.
>
> (You can re-enable remembered windows if you wish -- the important thing
> was to clear the list.)
>
> Makes me wonder if others are having problems with slowness.
>
> Jacob Morzinski jmorzins@mit.edu
>
