# HG changeset patch # User Jan Dj¸«£rv # Date 1259219733 0 # Node ID da7a85775258564f8033b0dde7c8542e9f44df70 # Parent 823bbd791783b55d4f0027bead9837cc4cb33fa6 Mention Metacity hang on Emacs resize. diff -r 823bbd791783 -r da7a85775258 etc/ChangeLog --- a/etc/ChangeLog Thu Nov 26 03:27:10 2009 +0000 +++ b/etc/ChangeLog Thu Nov 26 07:15:33 2009 +0000 @@ -1,3 +1,7 @@ +2009-11-26 Jan DjƤrv + + * PROBLEMS: Mention Metacity hang on Emacs resize. + 2009-11-20 Ken Brown (tiny change) * PROBLEMS: Add workaround for Cygwin crash and remove fixed diff -r 823bbd791783 -r da7a85775258 etc/PROBLEMS --- a/etc/PROBLEMS Thu Nov 26 03:27:10 2009 +0000 +++ b/etc/PROBLEMS Thu Nov 26 07:15:33 2009 +0000 @@ -1110,6 +1110,15 @@ ** 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