From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#69870: 29.2; Simple fix for Motif "XtGrabPointer failed." Date: Sat, 13 Apr 2024 10:57:30 +0300 Message-ID: <86cyqtr8yd.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87jzlzqbwa.fsf@yahoo.com> <874jd2qom0.fsf@yahoo.com> <86jzlibyum.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="40526"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: 69870@debbugs.gnu.org To: luangruo@yahoo.com, "Sparapani, Rodney" Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sat Apr 13 09:58:19 2024 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1rvYHC-000AIw-Qp for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 13 Apr 2024 09:58:18 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1rvYGp-0004zH-8V; Sat, 13 Apr 2024 03:57:55 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1rvYGn-0004x5-2B for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 13 Apr 2024 03:57:53 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:5::43]) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_128_GCM_SHA256:128) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1rvYGm-00066T-Pb for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 13 Apr 2024 03:57:52 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1rvYGx-0006fG-3P for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 13 Apr 2024 03:58:03 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Eli Zaretskii Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Sat, 13 Apr 2024 07:58:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 69870 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs Original-Received: via spool by 69870-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B69870.171299507125538 (code B ref 69870); Sat, 13 Apr 2024 07:58:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 69870) by debbugs.gnu.org; 13 Apr 2024 07:57:51 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:60040 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1rvYGk-0006dq-HK for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Sat, 13 Apr 2024 03:57:50 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:49364) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1rvYGi-0006d1-KD for 69870@debbugs.gnu.org; Sat, 13 Apr 2024 03:57:49 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1rvYGS-00062o-JX; Sat, 13 Apr 2024 03:57:32 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gnu.org; s=fencepost-gnu-org; h=MIME-version:References:Subject:In-Reply-To:To:From: Date; bh=FXi/6XDqcJMoaOzwBAv9dtp1O1rJgK5agggL27tR24A=; b=i0NpYDCkwHcIFN20wzO5 NS+vydCmNHGJvIrFi5w108NxnPLBWIBem1r8dFAn61//LezmEKZd5I37a6q1M5Raz6IEXjx8KgaB7 UtspamG32ubGt9v/jv0SApt6eEAuDFyuTYgvfByxw/J3KEDip7j2I6aZgsx98w9ikdkMyW45i5n01 sEu6B0FvLRcL6I6ZMVQ89Q/Lri6ehk/l1mPCjthKvA03jj1qhut9A9b++3aBW9Q79OoYLKrLHCItb 5NAaPD30N9JQqD2OfWtKc/2+a4QPm+KwsV7ChRGUAMjoOBs8JmwSlZvEUH3QJsIz+VrBj+KiSwFo/ 3CAWzdIV61qIvA==; In-Reply-To: (rsparapa@mcw.edu) X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.bugs:283184 Archived-At: Ping! Can we please make some progress with this issue? > From: "Sparapani, Rodney" > CC: "69870@debbugs.gnu.org" <69870@debbugs.gnu.org> > Date: Sun, 31 Mar 2024 15:31:38 +0000 > > We run emacs on a Linux server and display it on Macs and PCs > with X-windows. We have about 30 users but not everyone is > using emacs all of the time. > > The worst part of the problem shows this warning when emacs > freezes after emitting this on stderr when launched > from the command line... > $ emacs-29.2 & > $ Warning: > Name: menubar > Class: XmRowColumn > XtGrabPointer failed. > If launched from the window manager, you can still get the freeze, > but you obviously won’t see the warning. So as the warning says, > it is an attempt to activate the menubar (for me, its Files or Buffers). > But this doesn’t happen every time. What does happen every time > is that clicking on the menubar leads to a 10 to 20s pause (but it > really seems longer). Sometimes you don’t realize that nothing is > happening and you continue clicking or typing. And occasionally, > this will lock-up emacs (emit the warning) and you have to kill it from > > the window manager which seems to be the only option available. > > When there are unsaved files, you still get a prompt for that > > so it is not a crash, but this is very annoying since you have > > to restart emacs (and of the course the menubar lag). > > Perhaps, this has over-loaded some event handler? > But you can exit normally. Hopefully that helps.