Re: Strange lockup with metacity

[Jan Djärv]

Chong Yidong skrev:
> > > There was one controversial patch
> > > applied to src/xterm.c at the beginning of November, which may have
> > > some bearing on this.  This is just a hunch, but could you apply the
> > > reversed patch and see if the problem persists?
> > Applying that patch fixed the problem. I'm much happier now - thanks!
>
> My preceding email to Jon was not sent to this list, but the patch in
> question was the _NET_ACTIVE_WINDOW hack discussed in the "raise-frame
> doesn't work in Fedora Core 4" thread on emacs-devel.  Apparently, the
> hack has bad side-effects.

It is not a hack, it is following a Freedesktop specification.  We have to 
revisit the whole specification after the release and probably add a lot more 
of these _NET_* settings.  I'd say it is a bug in metacity (there are plenty 
already ...), but I've changed that bit in Emacs so we only send 
_NET_ACTIVATE_WINDOW on explicit raise-frame calls.

Jonathan, can you test a newer CVS?  Can you also check if raise-frame works 
on your old copy (i.e. the one that didn't hang metacity) of Emacs and the 
newer one?

Thanks,

        Jan D.