From: Jan Djärv Date: Thu, 26 Nov 2009 07:15:33 +0000 (+0000) Subject: Mention Metacity hang on Emacs resize. X-Git-Tag: emacs-pretest-23.1.90~210 X-Git-Url: http://git.eshelyaron.com/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=6a7ce3a2b0724db339481cc7d496d36d3eeaf11a;p=emacs.git Mention Metacity hang on Emacs resize. --- diff --git a/etc/ChangeLog b/etc/ChangeLog index 22acb5f910b..44163d86e55 100644 --- a/etc/ChangeLog +++ b/etc/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,7 @@ +2009-11-26 Jan Djärv + + * PROBLEMS: Mention Metacity hang on Emacs resize. + 2009-11-20 Ken Brown (tiny change) * PROBLEMS: Add workaround for Cygwin crash and remove fixed diff --git a/etc/PROBLEMS b/etc/PROBLEMS index 58ed9feec4d..2c9c294c76a 100644 --- a/etc/PROBLEMS +++ b/etc/PROBLEMS @@ -1110,6 +1110,15 @@ into Meta. This is because of the great importance of Meta in Emacs. ** Window-manager and toolkit-related problems +*** Metacity: Resizing Emacs or ALT-Tab causes X to be unresponsive. + +This happens sometimes when using Metacity. Resizing Emacs or ALT-Tab:bing +makes the system unresponsive to the mouse or the keyboard. Killing Emacs +or shifting out from X11 and back again usually cures it (i.e. Ctrl-Alt-F1 +and then Alt-F7). A bug for it is here: +https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/metacity/+bug/231034. +Note that a permanent fix seems to be to disable "assistive technologies". + *** Gnome: Emacs receives input directly from the keyboard, bypassing XIM. This seems to happen when gnome-settings-daemon version 2.12 or later