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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: "Francesco Potortì" <Potorti@isti.cnr.it>
Cc: 27901-done@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#27901: 25.1; x-win-suspend-error: Cannot suspend Emacs while running under X
Date: Sat, 05 Aug 2017 12:02:30 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <838tiywfo9.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1dcT3G-0002q1-OT@tucano.isti.cnr.it> (message from Francesco Potortì on Tue, 01 Aug 2017 11:01:18 +0200)

> Date: Tue, 01 Aug 2017 11:01:18 +0200
> From: Francesco Potortì <Potorti@isti.cnr.it>
> 
> I have Emacs running in a terminal under screen.  From there, I open a
> frame under X.  So I have a text frame under screen and a graphical
> frame under X.
> 
> When the graphical frame is open, if I try to suspend Emacs from the
> terminal, I get the error in the subject, whose meaning is obscure.
> 
> When I close the X frame, Emacs can be suspended normally.
> 
> If the error is only issued in the case I just described, then it should
> be rephrased, with something like "cannot suspend Emacs when a graphical
> frame exists".

Done, thanks.

> It would also be nice if the message explained how to close the
> graphical frame from the text frame.  I tried
>  (delete-frame (next-frame))
> from the text frame but the only result was that the text frame became
> unusable (not responding to commands any more).

I encourage people to propose simple ways of doing that.





  reply	other threads:[~2017-08-05  9:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-08-01  9:01 bug#27901: 25.1; x-win-suspend-error: Cannot suspend Emacs while running under X Francesco Potortì
2017-08-05  9:02 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2017-08-05  9:13   ` Francesco Potortì
2017-08-05  9:38     ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-08-05 11:44       ` Francesco Potortì
2017-08-05 12:00         ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-08-05 17:39           ` Francesco Potortì
2017-08-05 18:17             ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-08-05 18:27               ` Francesco Potortì
2017-08-05 18:43                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-08-05 19:01                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-08-05 19:03                   ` Francesco Potortì

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