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.
John Wheaton wrote:
> Sorry to seem thick here... is that an environment variable setting?
>> GDK_NATIVE_WINDOWS=1 emacsYes 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...