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[ The message to which I am replying does not appear in the Emacs bug
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tfs@maithean.com wrote:

> works fine within a terminal window.  This is why I think it has to do
> with window system interaction.

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=491813
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=491979

This appears to be an issue with libX11 in Fedora, affecting several
applications, and possibly fixed by the latest Fedora libX11.