multiwindow X11 and Emacs

[Ken Brown]

On 9/14/2012 6:36 PM, Wynfield Henman wrote:
> Sorry about that.  I was more making the point that it's not a cygwin
> port of emac's fault.
>
> I also have this problem using emacs built locally from the original
> gnu emacs source code.   And also from the cygwin port.
>
> C-z  puts emacs off the screen, but when its re-displayed the focus
> doesn't come back into the editting buffer.  I have to first click on
> any ol option on the top menu, and it re-activiates something that
> enable editting back in the buffer.
> environment:    putty (also built from original source code)
>
> This problem / hanging does not occur when emacs has been moved off
> the screen by clicking on the [-] tab in the upper right side of the
> emacs frame.
>
> Can you duplicate this on your system?
>
> C-Z    # then [SHIFT][TAB] back to emacs to get it back up on the
> screen.  It should be frozen then.  Workaround, click on [File] or
> something and then escape from it and you can work in the normal
> buffer.

This does sound like the same problem Achim reported (except that he 
didn't mention putty).  I still can't duplicate it, but I don't use 
putty.  Do you have the problem without putty?

Ken


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