From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Rusi Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Emacs starts with current screen contents in its display buffer Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2014 19:39:07 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: References: <53ADF2CC.9040804@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1403923227 16783 80.91.229.3 (28 Jun 2014 02:40:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 28 Jun 2014 02:40:27 +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 04:40:20 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 1X0iYu-0005SE-6i for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 28 Jun 2014 04:40:20 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:53351 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1X0iYt-0000bZ-Bn for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 27 Jun 2014 22:40:19 -0400 X-Received: by 10.58.164.226 with SMTP id yt2mr14466920veb.7.1403923148666; Fri, 27 Jun 2014 19:39:08 -0700 (PDT) X-Received: by 10.50.67.42 with SMTP id k10mr337740igt.5.1403923148568; Fri, 27 Jun 2014 19:39:08 -0700 (PDT) Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!i13no2122859qae.1!news-out.google.com!bp9ni0igb.0!nntp.google.com!uq10no14566386igb.0!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help In-Reply-To: Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=59.95.26.150; posting-account=mBpa7woAAAAGLEWUUKpmbxm-Quu5D8ui Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 59.95.26.150 User-Agent: G2/1.0 Injection-Date: Sat, 28 Jun 2014 02:39:08 +0000 Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:206171 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:98442 Archived-At: On Saturday, June 28, 2014 6:32:56 AM UTC+5:30, Segundo Bob wrote: > 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? Probably a window-system problem more than an emacs one (just guessing). What happens if you start with a blank screen and then start emacs using Alt-F2?