From: Ken Brown <kbrown@cornell.edu>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: multiwindow X11 and Emacs
Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2012 14:46:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <50509B05.1000005@cornell.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <loom.20120912T153808-270@post.gmane.org>
On 9/12/2012 9:50 AM, Achim Gratz wrote:
> Ken Brown <kbrown <at> cornell.edu> writes:
>
>> I can't reproduce this on my system. I'm running 64-bit Windows 7,
>> emacs-24.2-1, the latest Cygwin snapshot (2012-08-27), and the test
>> version of the X server (1.13.0-1). Here's what I tried:
>
> Same setup as mine except 32-bit Win7/Enterprise.
>
>> 1. Start mintty from the "Cygwin Terminal" shortcut.
>>
>> 2. $ startxwin
>>
>> 3. [still in the mintty window] $ DISPLAY=:0 emacs -Q&
>
> I've tested this both with bash and tcsh, BTW since tcsh's signal handling is
> apparently different from bash.
>
>> 4. In the resulting emacs window, C-z.
>>
>> 5. Left click on the emacs icon to de-iconify emacs.
>>
>> The cursor blinks and emacs responds to keyboard input.
>
> This is what doesn't work here. That is when I start the X server from another
> mintty than the one that the X server is started from or when the shell is tcsh.
> So if I extend your case with:
>
> 6. Start another mintty
>
> 7. DISPLAY=:0 emacs -Q&
>
> 8. In the resulting emacs window, C-z.
>
> 9. Left click on the emacs icon to de-iconify emacs.
>
> The cursor doesn't blink and emacs doesn't respond to keyboard input.
>
> What do you get?
Still no problem. I'm using only bash, not tcsh. But I gather that
you're having problems with both.
I wonder why your results are so different from mine. Do you have
something in your .startxwinrc that could be interfering? I moved my
.startxwinrc out of the way before testing.
Ken
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-09-12 14:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-09-12 10:52 Achim Gratz
2012-09-12 13:50 ` Ken Brown
2012-09-12 14:24 ` Achim Gratz
2012-09-12 14:46 ` Ken Brown [this message]
2012-09-12 15:09 ` Achim Gratz
2012-09-14 11:03 ` Wynfield Henman
2012-09-14 13:15 ` Ken Brown
2012-09-15 6:09 ` Wynfield Henman
2012-09-15 11:57 ` Ken Brown
2012-09-15 14:58 ` Ken Brown
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