GNU bug report logs - #56792
29.0.50; Emacs crashes when selecting text if xfreerdp is also running

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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Po Lu <luangruo <at> yahoo.com>
Cc: 56792-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org, David Welch <davidwelch158 <at> hotmail.com>
Subject: bug#56792: 29.0.50; Emacs crashes when selecting text if xfreerdp is also running
Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2022 12:25:28 +0200

Po Lu <luangruo <at> yahoo.com> writes:

> The segfault (which is really not a segfault, just GDK displaying a
> window system error and aborting in an unusual manner) is hard to avoid
> without adding X specific error handling code
> (gdk_x11_display_error_trap_push).  Which will then add a dependency on
> the X11-specific parts of GDK, and won't work if Emacs did not see them
> at build-time.

But aborting here is not acceptable.  Surely there's something Emacs can
do here -- it doesn't have to do something sensible, it just has to not
abort.

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