Re: Emacs starts with current screen contents in its display buffer

[Pascal J. Bourguignon]

James Freer <jessejazza3.uk@gmail.com> writes:

> On Fri, 27 Jun 2014, Segundo Bob wrote:
>
>> My system:
>>
>>      GNU Emacs 24.3.1 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.10.7)
>> of 2014-03-07 on toyol, modified by Debian
>>
>>      Xubuntu32 14.04
>>
>> I installed Xubuntu32 14.04 on 2014-06-12.  I noticed this problem
>> almost immediately.  The screen contents belonging to other
>> applications is NOT in the emacs buffer that is saved to disk, but
>> it is displayed. This makes emacs unusable for me.
>>
>> I have spent several hours over these past weeks Googling for anyone
>> reporting a similar problem, but I have found no relevant
>> information. This probably means that my problem is not a widespread
>> problem with the Ubuntu release.
>>
>> Who is supposed to clear the "display buffers"?  Linux or Emacs?
>>
>> I will appreciate any help.

That's strange.  Perhaps you have a very slow system?
Try to type C-l to have emacs redisplay the current buffer?


> I am running xubuntu and I am not getting that problem.
> This is what I have in my .emacs
> ;; Switch off start up message to have scatch buffer
> (setq inhibit-startup-message t)
> ;; Nothing in scratch buffer
> (setq initial-scratch-message nil)
>
> There may be better ways of achieving this but I have only recently
> started to use emacs.

Use:

    emacs -q --no-spash

What you have put in your ~/.emacs should work, it works for me.


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