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From: Robert Thorpe <rt@robertthorpeconsulting.com>
To: gebser@mousecar.com
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: emacs.desktop non-functional
Date: Sun, 20 Mar 2016 22:35:04 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87vb4ghj6v.fsf@robertthorpeconsulting.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <56ECACE1.4090005@mousecar.com> (message from ken on Fri, 18 Mar 2016 21:35:29 -0400)

ken <gebser@mousecar.com> writes:
> The minibuffer says "Warning: desktop file appears to be in use by PID 
> 4074.  Using it may cause conflicts.  Use it anyway?"  PID 4074 doesn't 
> exist... probably from a crashed session.

Have you tried disabling Emacs --daemon and started Emacs the normal
way?  Does that help?

Have you tried renaming the old emacs.desktop files so the current Emacs
can't see them?  That could help.

BR,
Robert Thorpe



      parent reply	other threads:[~2016-03-20 22:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-03-17  1:38 emacs.desktop non-functional ken
2016-03-17  3:39 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-03-17 21:05   ` ken
2016-03-18  8:01     ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-03-18 19:21       ` ken
2016-03-18 20:20         ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-03-19  1:35           ` ken
2016-03-19  8:14             ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-03-20 22:35             ` Robert Thorpe [this message]

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