Subject: bug#5353: 23.1; buffer pull-down menu not complete

From: Glenn Morris <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 2010 20:45:07 -0500

John Telting wrote:

>   My current Emacs is version 23.1.1, on Ubuntu 8.04.
>   Only the buffers given at the command line at startup are present
>   in the pull-down menu, together with the Scratch and Messages buffers.

This sounds like

http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=4122

which has been reported to Emacs, Debian, and Ubuntu multiple times.

Does the problem go away if you start Emacs with:

GDK_NATIVE_WINDOWS=1 emacs

or if you update to the latest Debian version, 23.1+1-5, from Nov 2009?

> In GNU Emacs 23.1.1 (i486-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.16.5)
>  of 2009-09-14 on raven, modified by Debian