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Re: multiwindow X11 and Emacs
- From: Wynfield Henman <wynfield at gmail dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2012 22:56:45 -0700
- Subject: Re: multiwindow X11 and Emacs
- References: <loom.20120912T081507-978@post.gmane.org>
emacs hangs for me when invoking it from putty which has been
initiated by cygwin X11 which I start with startx.
But, I usually always have emacs up all the time and its not a big
pain. I would be nice for it not to freeze when being re-activated.
On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 11:46 PM, Achim Gratz <Stromeko@nexgo.de> 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?
>
>
> Regards,
> Achim.
>
>
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