On Thu, Nov 30, 2023 at 10:43:45AM +1300, Davin Pearson wrote:

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> Yet it fails to bring up an error backtrace.

I fear this is too scant a context to feed educated guesses. But
this, at least, looks wrong to me:

> I also tried the following command:
> 
> emacs --geometry 2048x1024 --eval "(setq debug-on-error)" --debug-init &

... it should be "(setq debug-on-error t)".

Cheers
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t