xman displays man pages very slowly

[walter harms]

Is "man foo" compareable slow ?
Do you have other programms behaving strange ?

re,
 wh


Am 23.02.2014 10:42, schrieb Rudolf Poller:
> Hello,
> 
> Affected system:
> 
> + Windows 7 Enterprise 64 bit
> + CYGWIN_NT-6.1 2014-02-09 21:06 x86_64 Cygwin
> + Window Maker 0.95.4
> + xman 1.1.3
> 
> Problem description:
> 
> I have recently installed cygwin. Unfortunately, xman displays man pages
> so slowly that I can see how it draws the pixels row by row. Meanwhile
> it also occupies the whole Window Maker. This makes xman unusable for
> the daily work.
> 
> Otherwise all of cygwin, Window Maker and xman works fine.
> 
> What can one do to speed up xman's display operation?
> 
> The problem does not seem to be an xman malfuntion. I also installed
> xman 1.1.2 from source and it performs the same way, although xman 1.1.2
> works fine with the original cygwin installation on another computer
> (Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise 64 bit, CYGWIN_NT-6.1-WOW64
> 2012-10-19 14:39 i686 Cygwin, Window Maker 0.95.3).
> 
> Perhaps it helps to note that the cygwin setup-x86_64.exe installed xman
> 1.1.3 in such a way that in the man page window only the groff output
> appeared. I had to build it from source using
> 
>         ./configure CFLAGS=-D__CYGWIN__
> 
> and adding a C prepocessor test entry to vendor.h, so as to achieve the
> present status (that is, at least the man page appears, although very
> slowly).
> 
> The hardware includes high performance graphics (being a CAE workstation).
> 
> Your kind help is appreciated.
> 
> Best regards,
> Rudolf Poller
> 
> 
> 
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