1. Build emacs 26 RC1 with --with-x-toolkit=gtk3 a. confirm builds and runs ok when run local 2. Login to windows box, launch ssh -X putty session to linux host with emacs 26 installed. (windows xserver: vcxsrv or xming) 3. emacs -Q 4. Emacs does not display correctly. Missing minibuffer, & can't type in buffer. Compare to attached screenshot. I can compile Emacs 26.1 RC1 ok, and use it locally on the host fine. However, when attempting to ssh -X to host via PuTTY 0.70 and launch the Emacs gui (emacs -Q), emacs is not displaying correctly. Using Windows xserver program VcXsrv (1.19.6.3). See attached screenshot - no default welcome screen, and missing minibuffer too. I suspect this issue is related to some combination of GTK and Xming/VcXsrv, however the behavior does change between Emacs 25.3 and 26.1 RC1, see table below: I'ved tried the follow commits, and only 25.3 is ok over PuTTY/SSH/X11 & xming/vcxsrv emacs-25.3 bd299e7 # Sep 12, 2017 # good emacs-26.0.90 906224 # Oct 11, 2017 # bad emacs-26.0.91 752fba99 # Jan 13, 2018 # bad emacs-26.1-rc1 c2674216 # Apr 9, 2018 # bad The following ./configure options are desired: --with-x-toolkit=gtk3 --with-xwidgets --with-modules --with-mailutils Where gtk3 is required for xwidgets, so other x-toolkits are not the best solution. Also --with-x-toolkit=gtk2 has same issues. Similiar information posted here: - https://emacs.stackexchange.com/questions/41021/emacs-26- 1-rc1-display-issues-over-ssh-x11-with-xming-vcxsrv Possibly related posts: - https://emacs.stackexchange.com/questions/40990/emacs- aborted-core-dumped-centos-7-0-emacs-25-3-please-help - https://bugs.launchpad.net/elementaryos/+bug/1355274 - https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=85715 Also attempted on CentOS 7 / GTK+ Version 3.22.10 with similar behavior. Thanks, CH In GNU Emacs 26.1 (build 1, x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.20.10) of 2018-04-10 built on atlas Windowing system distributor 'The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.11803000 System Description: openSUSE Leap 42.3 Recent messages: For information about GNU Emacs and the GNU system, type C-h C-a. Making completion list... Configured using: 'configure --with-x-toolkit=gtk3 --with-xwidgets --with-modules --with-mailutils --prefix=/home/brian/sandbox/emacs_26.1' Configured features: XPM JPEG TIFF GIF PNG RSVG IMAGEMAGICK SOUND DBUS GSETTINGS NOTIFY GNUTLS LIBXML2 FREETYPE XFT ZLIB TOOLKIT_SCROLL_BARS GTK3 X11 MODULES THREADS XWIDGETS LCMS2 Important settings: value of $LANG: en_US.UTF-8 value of $XMODIFIERS: @im=ibus locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix Major mode: Lisp Interaction Minor modes in effect: tooltip-mode: t global-eldoc-mode: t eldoc-mode: t electric-indent-mode: t mouse-wheel-mode: t tool-bar-mode: t menu-bar-mode: t file-name-shadow-mode: t global-font-lock-mode: t font-lock-mode: t blink-cursor-mode: t auto-composition-mode: t auto-encryption-mode: t auto-compression-mode: t line-number-mode: t transient-mark-mode: t Load-path shadows: None found. Features: (shadow sort mail-extr emacsbug message rmc puny seq byte-opt gv bytecomp byte-compile cconv cl-loaddefs cl-lib dired dired-loaddefs format-spec rfc822 mml easymenu mml-sec password-cache epa derived epg epg-config gnus-util rmail rmail-loaddefs mm-decode mm-bodies mm-encode mail-parse rfc2231 mailabbrev gmm-utils mailheader sendmail rfc2047 rfc2045 ietf-drums mm-util mail-prsvr mail-utils elec-pair time-date mule-util tooltip eldoc electric uniquify ediff-hook vc-hooks lisp-float-type mwheel term/x-win x-win term/common-win x-dnd tool-bar dnd fontset image regexp-opt fringe tabulated-list replace newcomment text-mode elisp-mode lisp-mode prog-mode register page menu-bar rfn-eshadow isearch timer select scroll-bar mouse jit-lock font-lock syntax facemenu font-core term/tty-colors frame cl-generic cham georgian utf-8-lang misc-lang vietnamese tibetan thai tai-viet lao korean japanese eucjp-ms cp51932 hebrew greek romanian slovak czech european ethiopic indian cyrillic chinese composite charscript charprop case-table epa-hook jka-cmpr-hook help simple abbrev obarray minibuffer cl-preloaded nadvice loaddefs button faces cus-face macroexp files text-properties overlay sha1 md5 base64 format env code-pages mule custom widget hashtable-print-readable backquote dbusbind inotify lcms2 dynamic-setting system-font-setting font-render-setting xwidget-internal move-toolbar gtk x-toolkit x multi-tty make-network-process emacs) Memory information: ((conses 16 95213 9039) (symbols 48 20393 2) (miscs 40 74 143) (strings 32 28418 1528) (string-bytes 1 751586) (vectors 16 14028) (vector-slots 8 493536 10574) (floats 8 49 68) (intervals 56 229 0) (buffers 992 12) (heap 1024 41537 1116))