On 2014-10-16 Thu 04:41, martin rudalics wrote: > The behavior seems time related: The longer another application's window > covers that of Emacs, the higher is the probability that the Emacs frame > is not redrawn. Clicking on a menu item, resizing the frame, or > switching do it via M-TAB gets it out of the situation. Clicking with > the mouse into the frame doesn't. In my case, I can't see an influence of time but perhaps I haven't tried hard enough. I can make Emacs behave correctly, by clicking menu items, by focusing it using M-TAB, and by resizing. However, resizing does not have this effect when Emacs is in fullscreen mode. Titus