I have tried this invocation of emacs.  It can run longer without hanging,
but it still hangs.  I think I'm going to grab 23.3 and try it out.

On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 1:09 PM, Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org> wrote:

> John Wheaton wrote:
>
> > Sorry to seem thick here... is that an environment variable setting?
>
> >> GDK_NATIVE_WINDOWS=1 emacs
>
> Yes it is:
>
> bash> export var=val
>
> sets "var" for the rest of the shell session.
>
> bash> var=val program
>
> sets "var" just for the execution of "program".
>
>
> Also note that Debian has more recent packages than the one you are
> using, and it may well be fixed in one of those. Latest is 23.2+1-7.
>
> It would be great if you test the pretest for the coming 23.3
> though...
>