Subject: Re: bug#23377: 25.0.93; Completion is extremely slow for insert-char

From: Stefan Monnier <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2016 20:10:18 -0400

> listing all the characters. I particularly notice it when I run Emacs over
> X from my office to home, something that's normally quite tolerable. I had

Sounds like the main problem comes from the use of old
server-side fonts.

What happens if you do

    (add-to-list 'default-frame-alist '(font-backend xft))

so as to remove the `x' font backend?

        Stefan