From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Pascal J. Bourguignon" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Emacs starts with current screen contents in its display buffer Date: Sat, 28 Jun 2014 08:05:17 +0200 Organization: Informatimago Message-ID: <87oaxdvaaq.fsf@kuiper.lan.informatimago.com> References: <53ADF2CC.9040804@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1403935824 30849 80.91.229.3 (28 Jun 2014 06:10:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 28 Jun 2014 06:10:24 +0000 (UTC) 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 08:10:19 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 1X0lq6-0000l9-4L for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 28 Jun 2014 08:10:18 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:53652 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1X0lq5-0006of-Kw for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 28 Jun 2014 02:10:17 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 50 Original-X-Trace: individual.net BBF+VluOq4mqIAJuNmSz/wrDg8B6U0AFKZb+1CmPUOXKnBL+MZ Cancel-Lock: sha1:YTBhMGI1ZDRkNjVmN2Q3ZDE1NjdjMmNmNjI5YjAxMTRjOTM4N2VjOQ== sha1:0C8lShNYwLWZZmAPxyOIWo6N8zI= Face: iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAADAAAAAwAQMAAABtzGvEAAAABlBMVEUAAAD///+l2Z/dAAAA oElEQVR4nK3OsRHCMAwF0O8YQufUNIQRGIAja9CxSA55AxZgFO4coMgYrEDDQZWPIlNAjwq9 033pbOBPtbXuB6PKNBn5gZkhGa86Z4x2wE67O+06WxGD/HCOGR0deY3f9Ijwwt7rNGNf6Oac l/GuZTF1wFGKiYYHKSFAkjIo1b6sCYS1sVmFhhhahKQssRjRT90ITWUk6vvK3RsPGs+M1RuR mV+hO/VvFAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg== X-Accept-Language: fr, es, en User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:206172 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:98443 Archived-At: James Freer writes: > 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. That's strange. Perhaps you have a very slow system? Try to type C-l to have emacs redisplay the current buffer? > 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. Use: emacs -q --no-spash What you have put in your ~/.emacs should work, it works for me. -- __Pascal Bourguignon__ http://www.informatimago.com/ "Le mercure monte ? C'est le moment d'acheter !"