This bug occurs on emacs master branch but it doesn't with emacs 26.2 Steps to reproduce: terminal #1: $ git clone --recursive git://git.savannah.gnu.org/emacs.git $ cd emacs && ./autogen.sh $ mkdir build && cd build $ ../configure --prefix=/opt/emacs-git --with-modules --with-xwidgets --with-imagemagick $ make install $ /opt/emacs-git/bin/emacs --fg-daemon -Q Open another terminal (terminal #2): $ /opt/emacs-git/bin/emacsclient -n -c BIG_FILE.txt the command doesn't return and no frame is opened. On the terminal #1, there is this output: ``` Warning: due to a long standing Gtk+ bug https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtk/issues/221 Emacs might crash when run in daemon mode and the X11 connection is unexpectedly lost. Using an Emacs configured with --with-x-toolkit=lucid does not have this problem. Starting Emacs daemon. File BIG_FILE.txt is large (11.9 MiB), really open? (y)es or (n)o or (l)iterally File BIG_FILE.txt is large (11.9 MiB), really open? (y)es or (n)o or (l)iterally ``` Open a 3rd terminal (terminal #3): $ /opt/emacs-git/bin/emacsclient -n -c A new frame is opened with this message in the minibuffer: `File BIG_FILE.txt is large (11.9 MiB), really open? (y)es or (n)o or (l)iterally` If I type `y`, a new frame is opened (from terminal #2) with the file BIG_FILE.txt in its buffer. Let me know if you need more details. Thanks, Sebastien Chapuis.