GNU bug report logs - #17975
24.3.92; assertion failure deleting frames with varying names for the same display (and, using multiple X11 connections in that case too)

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From: Dmitry Antipov <dmantipov <at> yandex.ru>
To: Ken Raeburn <raeburn <at> permabit.com>
Cc: 17975 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#17975: 24.3.92; assertion failure deleting frames with varying names for the same display (and, using multiple X11 connections in that case too)
Date: Sun, 13 Jul 2014 09:43:32 +0400

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On 07/12/2014 01:22 AM, Ken Raeburn wrote:

> It works for me too. Of course, my saved .emacs.desktop already has a
> mix of display names in it; I'll have to get them in sync.

I think this won't help if you're really using multiple displays,
for example, :0.0 and :1.0.

> But of course it isn't going to address some reasonable uses of
> make-frame-on-display (including perhaps old scripts some of us may have
> lying around that invoke make-frame-on-display by way of emacsclient
> --eval). Perhaps a similar change can be made within the main Emacs
> code?

I'm afraid that we can't do anything useful on Emacs side because of libX11 bug.
If you can rebuild libX11 from git, you can try this patch; I think we should
create bug report at http://bugs.freedesktop.org...

Dmitry

[lcd-core-modifiers.patch (text/x-patch, attachment)]

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