From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Segundo Bob Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Emacs starts with current screen contents in its display buffer Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2014 18:02:56 -0700 Message-ID: <53AE1440.9070500@gmail.com> References: <53ADF2CC.9040804@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1403917426 25956 80.91.229.3 (28 Jun 2014 01:03:46 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 28 Jun 2014 01:03:46 +0000 (UTC) Cc: jessejazza3.uk@gmail.com To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jun 28 03:03:39 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1X0h3K-0001F9-KI for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 28 Jun 2014 03:03:38 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:53115 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1X0h3K-0005GJ-9M for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 27 Jun 2014 21:03:38 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:39938) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1X0h2r-00052r-Ch for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 27 Jun 2014 21:03:18 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1X0h2i-0001QG-6J for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 27 Jun 2014 21:03:09 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-pd0-x22d.google.com ([2607:f8b0:400e:c02::22d]:51274) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1X0h2h-0001QB-W5 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 27 Jun 2014 21:03:00 -0400 Original-Received: by mail-pd0-f173.google.com with SMTP id r10so5108365pdi.32 for ; Fri, 27 Jun 2014 18:02:59 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=from:message-id:date:user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject :references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=FvUyoE0vEcIiJRoFCIw7/pbX/qnMDdcw4S4hf5Zd+aM=; b=q8G3hx4X4HY5ymEWZCEOxecSKX1GV186Lbdu2h9hnw4dqxkgyJ7t5UQWfz5kcS0Kdf Y7gxvq0KXFzXt1zTaEcrrLvn/eaB/Ak/ZyvNXUsQd9vXNLC6pddrLmDQ7rE/1EmWzz8E /iKQrcE9wPGW5t7w16lRlkBbyEdlLRjSUlTPOZNuj8l4jE81tiTP1PT7aQsH1kTj7tbp HGcxmovXGpa7vO55oDnxH+M4Eo8CgBwArg8lMPGlVHcSPSdwXPtnfcj5K2VovDkiOmZ+ kjqX5IhQvZt5+5rL/R0p2iQZJO8HoqZHBH3Ur0V1CLNe/aP4D61aiEe6UrzY+B0LDWYx wiqA== X-Received: by 10.68.227.4 with SMTP id rw4mr34880712pbc.3.1403917378937; Fri, 27 Jun 2014 18:02:58 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from [192.168.1.100] (user-0c9h1f4.cable.mindspring.com. 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X-Received-From: 2607:f8b0:400e:c02::22d X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:98441 Archived-At: On 06/27/2014 05:02 PM, James Freer wrote: > On Fri, 27 Jun 2014, Segundo Bob wrote: > >> My system: >> >> GNU Emacs 24.3.1 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.10.7) >> of 2014-03-07 on toyol, modified by Debian >> >> Xubuntu32 14.04 >> >> I installed Xubuntu32 14.04 on 2014-06-12. I noticed this problem >> almost immediately. The screen contents belonging to other >> applications is NOT in the emacs buffer that is saved to disk, but it >> is displayed. This makes emacs unusable for me. >> >> I have spent several hours over these past weeks Googling for anyone >> reporting a similar problem, but I have found no relevant information. >> This probably means that my problem is not a widespread problem with >> the Ubuntu release. >> >> Who is supposed to clear the "display buffers"? Linux or Emacs? >> >> I will appreciate any help. >> -- >> Segundo Bob > > I am running xubuntu and I am not getting that problem. > This is what I have in my .emacs > ;; Switch off start up message to have scatch buffer > (setq inhibit-startup-message t) > ;; Nothing in scratch buffer > (setq initial-scratch-message nil) > > There may be better ways of achieving this but I have only recently > started to use emacs. > > james > Thanks for the suggestion. I already had (setq inhibit-startup-message t) I added: (setq initial-scratch-message nil) This had no effect. Other ideas? Anyone? -- Segundo Bob SegundoBob@gmail.com