Out of curiosity (I experience this bug too) what do you have to give up if
you compile with Lucid?   I assume that anti-aliased fonts would go. Do you
loose the ability to use proportional fonts as well or is that handled by
Emacs itself?



On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 3:07 PM, Dan Nicolaescu <dann@gnu.org> wrote:

> Neal Becker <ndbecker2@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > emacs-23.2.1 fedora 13 x86_64
> >
> > I start emacs --daemon on a remote
> >
> > If I connect with emacsclient -c , and then cleanly disconnect, (e.g.,
> C-x
> > C-c), I can subsequently re-connect with emacsclient -c.
> >
> > But if the connection is rudely dropped, then when I attempt to
> re-connect
> > I get a blank window.
>
> This is a bug in Gtk+.
> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=85715.  (emacs/etc/PROBLEMS
> has a note about this too).
> If you intend to use the daemon mode, it's better to compile emacs
> using the lucid toolkit.
> It doesn't look like the Gtk+ bug will ever be fixed so...
>
>
>