Subject: Re: bug#2709: emacs doesn't start

From: Glenn Morris <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2009 13:42:14 -0400

[ The message to which I am replying does not appear in the Emacs bug
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[email-masked] wrote:

> works fine within a terminal window.  This is why I think it has to do
> with window system interaction.

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=491813
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=491979

This appears to be an issue with libX11 in Fedora, affecting several
applications, and possibly fixed by the latest Fedora libX11.