Re: Several problems

[martin rudalics]

> the horizontal scroll bar code crashing on me
> whenever I restore the desktop (which involves restoring the window
> configuration).
>
> _That_ crash would have been
>
> (gdb) bt
> #0  0xb7fdd424 in __kernel_vsyscall ()
> #1  0xb69460c6 in raise (address@hidden)
>      at ../nptl/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/pt-raise.c:37
> #2  0x08124299 in terminate_due_to_signal (address@hidden,
>      address@hidden) at ../../emacs/src/emacs.c:387
> #3  0x0813cef7 in emacs_abort () at ../../emacs/src/sysdep.c:2198
> #4  0x080f3e38 in XTredeem_scroll_bar (w=0x8752f30)
>      at ../../emacs/src/xterm.c:5948
> #5  0x0809dd4a in redisplay_window (address@hidden,
>      address@hidden)
>      at ../../emacs/src/xdisp.c:16839
> #6  0x080a16be in redisplay_window_0 (window=141897525)
>      at ../../emacs/src/xdisp.c:14250
[...]
>
> My Emacs is configured to use GTK but --without-toolkit-scroll-bars.
> For now I've rewound my Emacs version to before the horizontal
> scroll-bar commit since I would not be able to get any work done
> otherwise.

As a first attempt could you please try the patch below?


=== modified file 'src/window.h'
--- src/window.h        2014-07-27 13:21:30 +0000
+++ src/window.h        2014-07-28 12:19:52 +0000
@@ -787,7 +787,7 @@

 /* Say whether horizontal scroll bars are currently enabled for window
    W.  Horizontal scrollbars exist for toolkit versions only.  */
-#if defined (USE_X_TOOLKIT) || defined (USE_GTK) || defined (HAVE_NTGUI)
+#if defined (USE_X_TOOLKIT) || (defined (USE_GTK) && defined 
(USE_TOOLKIT_SCROLL_BARS)) || defined (HAVE_NTGUI)
 #define WINDOW_HAS_HORIZONTAL_SCROLL_BAR(W)                    \
   ((WINDOW_PSEUDO_P (W) || MINI_NON_ONLY_WINDOW_P (W))         \
    ? false                                                     \


I'm afraid that desktop still won't work satisfactorily due to other
issues but maybe the crash gets fixed this way.

Thanks, martin