Re: [RP] ratpoison + xemacs -> infinite event loop

[shawn]

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>Date: 05 Jan 2001 20:24:33 +1100
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>The combination of X 3.9.17 + ratpoison + xemacs seems to send
>xemacs + X into an infinite event loop.
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>The symptoms are these: 
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>The initial xemacs window is drawn, .emacs etc is read, then xemacs
>appears to receive a maximise/resize event from ratpoison. The window
>gets resized to the size of the root window, and then immediately goes
>into an infinite redraw (or more likely, resize) loop.  top shows that
>both xemacs and X are gobbling cpu.
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>The window is non-responsive to ^Tk events. ^tK kills the window --
>however, xemacs stays in an infinite loop and ratpoison dies with:
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>ratpoison: BadWindow (invalid Window parameter)!

What version of ratpoison are you running? This problem should be
fixed in CVS...

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>Cheers,
>Julian.
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>With this exception, surfraw (surfraw.sourceforge.net) and ratpoison
>make for a truly holy alloy in the war opon the souls of gui idolators
>world wide.

Excellent!