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Emacs spinning in glib

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From: Dan Nicolaescu <dann <at> gnu.org>
To: Ken Raeburn <raeburn <at> raeburn.org>
Cc: 6975 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#6975: Emacs spinning in glib
Date: Fri, 03 Sep 2010 11:55:06 -0400

Ken Raeburn <raeburn <at> raeburn.org> writes:

> I use emacsclient fairly heavily with Emacs 23.2 at work; mostly for
> getting additional windows on the local display, but occasionally
> with a remote display as well when I log into my work machine from
> home.  I tried to do the latter today, and a blank window popped up,
> but then Emacs was spinning and not responding.


This is quite likely a very old bug in Gtk+ that gets reported here
from time to time.
Gtk+ does not properly support connecting/disconnecting to multiple
X11 displays.

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=85715

IMHO for people that normally use multiple displays and emacsclient
the best is to use the Lucid toolkit, otherwise you'll hit this
problem from time to time.

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