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From: "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" <lennart.borgman@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, jasonr@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Bug: can not start a w32 GUI program from Emacs
Date: Sat, 30 Dec 2006 19:22:41 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4596AE71.5090803@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <uwt491cwo.fsf@gnu.org>

Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>>>> It takes quite a while for this to show up. Task Manager says that 
>>>> explorer.exe holds 9,999 GDI objects when it does and each menu access 
>>>> adds 4 to that figure (before it hits the roof).
>>>>     
>>>>         
>>> I cannot reproduce this ``4 objects for each menu access'' problem: on
>>> my system, the count goes back down after the menu is closed.
>>>   
>>>       
>> Did you turn StickyKeys on?
>>     
>
> No, of course not.  Are you saying that the problem with start-process
> happens only when StickyKeys are on?
>   

I am saying that it is a bug in MS Windows that is there only when 
StickyKeys is on. When StickyKeys are on 4 GDI obj are lost on each menu 
access.

>   
>> I hardly ever use explorer.
>>     
>
> Then how come you accumulated so many GDI objects for explorer?
>   

I think that depends on how MS Windows organize its windows. Some 
windows, like menu windows and message box windows are owned by explorer.

      reply	other threads:[~2006-12-30 18:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-12-27  0:38 Bug: can not start a w32 GUI program from Emacs Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2006-12-27  2:30 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2006-12-27  8:24 ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-12-27 10:52   ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2006-12-27 12:00     ` Mathias Dahl
2006-12-27 12:19       ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-12-27 12:50         ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2006-12-27 14:19           ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-12-27 14:33             ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2006-12-27 19:21               ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-12-27 12:36       ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2006-12-28  9:26 ` Jason Rumney
2006-12-28  9:32   ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2006-12-30  1:09   ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2006-12-30 15:49     ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-12-30 16:04       ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2006-12-30 17:00         ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-12-30 17:28           ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2006-12-30 18:01             ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-12-30 18:22               ` Lennart Borgman (gmail) [this message]

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