multiwindow X11 and Emacs
Ken Brown
kbrown@cornell.edu
Wed Sep 12 13:50:00 GMT 2012
On 9/12/2012 2:46 AM, Achim Gratz wrote:
>
> Now that X11 works again without crashing and I've found a font that looks OK
> I'm running into a problem again that (I think) has existed for much longer:
>
> When I start emacs from a shell window outside the X11 session (e.g. the same
> mintty that I ran startxwin in) and then iconify emacs-X11 with C-z, the cursor
> won't blink and it won't respond to keyboard input after de-iconifying it from
> the taskbar (I'm using the multiwindow "native" window manager). I have to
> select something from the menu bar before emacs starts responding again, which
> is a bit of a problem when I've switched the menu bar off... until I remember
> that the context menus in the text pane are still there.
>
> This does not happen if Emacs is started from an Xterm or the menu entry of the
> X server icon in the notification area or even another mintty that's been
> started from within X. Somehow that C-z makes its way to where it shouldn't go
> when the controlling terminal hasn't been started from the X11 session. Ideas?
I can't reproduce this on my system. I'm running 64-bit Windows 7,
emacs-24.2-1, the latest Cygwin snapshot (2012-08-27), and the test
version of the X server (1.13.0-1). Here's what I tried:
1. Start mintty from the "Cygwin Terminal" shortcut.
2. $ startxwin
3. [still in the mintty window] $ DISPLAY=:0 emacs -Q&
4. In the resulting emacs window, C-z.
5. Left click on the emacs icon to de-iconify emacs.
The cursor blinks and emacs responds to keyboard input.
Are you able to reproduce your problem with 'emacs -Q'?
Ken
P.S. Shouldn't this discussion be taking place on the cygwin-xfree list?
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