GNU bug report logs - #7162
23.1; clicking in menu bar blank area hangs emacs interface

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: jamshark70 <at> dewdrop-world.net

Date: Tue, 5 Oct 2010 06:49:01 UTC

Severity: important

Tags: patch

Merged with 6499, 7095, 7212, 7294, 7714, 7734

Found in versions 23.1, 23.2

Fixed in version 23.3

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

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #8 received at 7162 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
To: jamshark70 <at> dewdrop-world.net
Cc: 7162 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#7162: 23.1;
	clicking in menu bar blank area hangs emacs interface
Date: Tue, 05 Oct 2010 11:54:23 -0400

forcemerge 7095 7162
stop

James Harkins wrote:

> When I click in the menu bar area to the right of "Help" (where there is no
> menu), Emacs 23 on my ubuntu 10.04 box "hangs"
[...]
> Ubuntu 10.04 (amd64), gnome desktop, GNU Emacs 23.1.1 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu,
> GTK+ Version 2.20.0)

Problems with menus and recent gtk versions in Emacs 23.1 are usually

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

Try updating to Emacs 23.2, or using

GDK_NATIVE_WINDOWS=1 emacs

(Please encourage Ubuntu to update their packages.)
This bug report was last modified 14 years and 118 days ago.

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