it doesn't happen for me, nor should it cause a temp hang. is your hard drive exceedingly slow? is your home dir mounted over a slow NFS link?
it might not even be the autosave (I can't imagine autosave even being noticable). have you tried uninstalling gnome-spell? does that make a difference? (actually, I have gnome-spell too but it doesn't cause any hangs for me... but it's another possibility?) Jeff On Wed, 2004-01-21 at 19:41, J Black wrote: > Thank you, Guenther, for the reply. It is somewhat reassuring that I am > not the only one experiencing it. > > If others can confirm that this behavior is to be expected, please let > me know and I will switch to another mail client. I can't imagine > telling anyone to switch from Outlook on Windows to Evolution on Linux > and, oh, by the way, you will have to stop typing for 5 seconds every > minute! > > As I said in my original post (perhaps that has gotten lost), this was > not a problem in the Evolution that came with Mandrake 9.1, so if anyone > has a solution, please let me know (other than re-installing the old > Mandrake)! I am also open to any work-around, and if someone thinks it > is just my installation that is broken and knows how to fix it, that > would be welcome information too! > > - J Black > ________________ > On Wed, 2004-01-21 at 13:00, guenther wrote: > > > Whenever I'm editing a message and typing away, the compose window > > > freezes for about 5 seconds every 60 seconds. The cursor stops > > > blinking, and whatever I type doesn't appear until the 5 seconds is up. > > > (It's done it twice just typing these sentences!) Even typing a single > > > character into the message window is enough to trigger this behavior. > > > > Just a guess: The Composer is saving copies of the mails. It might be > > this. You will love this feature, when Evolution crashes the first time > > while you are writing a large mail. (Well, haven't had that happen > > often, though. :) > > > > FWIW: I do see this sometimes, too. > > > > ...guenther > > > > _______________________________________________ > evolution maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution > _______________________________________________ evolution maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution
