Subject: bug#1379: emacs --daemon not working with X11 dual-head

From: Dan Nicolaescu <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2008 18:12:47 -0800 (PST)

[email-masked] writes:

  > Hi,
  > 
  > I wanted to start using the "emacs --daemon" option with subsequent
  > "emacsclient ..." invocations. Everything works fine, as long as only
  > one of my X11 screens is used. But when I want to start a new frame
  > on display :0.1 while one or more frames are already running on
  > display :0.0 the following happens:
  > 
  > - Executing "emacsclient -c " for the first time: A frame appears, and
  >   immediately disappears again with the error message
  >   *ERROR*: X protocol error: BadDrawable (invalid Pixmap or Window parameter) on protocol request 14
  > 
  > - Executing "emacsclient -c " for the second time: A frame appears,
  >   but emacs is in a complete dead lock after this.
  > 
  > Used Version: 
  > i  emacs-snapshot                                   1:20081013-1
  > 
  > on Ubuntu 8.10 / x86_64

Can you please try to see if your scenario works without using the
--daemon option?

Start emacs like this:

emacs -Q -f server-start&

and then use
 emacsclient -c 
to connect.