Subject: Re: bug#27670: 25.2; emacs GUI hangs when rxvt is busy displaying logs

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 05 Jul 2021 15:59:51 +0200

zhanghj <[email-masked]> writes:

> 1. Start rxvt-unicode and tmux.
> 2. Run a test program in tmux, which just prints text(include chinese chars) as fast as it can.
> 3. Start emacs GUI with "emacs -Q". Then open xdisp.c in emacs, and keep
> pressing the "down" key.
> 4. After about 15 seconds, emacs GUI hangs.
> 5. Kill the test program in 2. Emacs GUI still hangs.

(I'm going through old bug reports that unfortunately got little response at
the time.)

Are you still seeing these issues in more recent versions of Emacs?  The
issue seems to be related to XIM functionality, and I vaguely remember
there being some fixes in that area recently.

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