GNU bug report logs - #4968
Emacs 23.1-gtk+ hangs Xwindows

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: d.mercer <at> acfr.usyd.edu.au

Date: Thu, 19 Nov 2009 09:00:04 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Jan Djärv <jan.h.d <at> swipnet.se>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Richard Stallman <rms <at> gnu.org>
To: d.mercer <at> acfr.usyd.edu.au, 4968 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Cc: jan.h.d <at> swipnet.se, bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org, 4968 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#4968: Emacs 23.1-gtk+ hangs Xwindows
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 2009 15:38:51 -0500

    > "Xwindows" doesn't really exist :-):
    >
    > " The  X.Org  Foundation  requests  that the following names be used when
    > referring to this software:

I have a vague recollection that this has something to with a promise
that the X Consortium made to Microsoft to settle a lawsuit.
If that is true, then although they had to ask us not to do it,
concern for them would not lead us to comply with their request.

I am not sure whether this is true, and I wouldn't necessarily trust a
statement by the X Consortium about the matter.  X.Org isn't the X
Consortium either.
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