From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: luangruo@yahoo.com, "Sparapani, Rodney" <rsparapa@mcw.edu>
Cc: 69870@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#69870: 29.2; Simple fix for Motif "XtGrabPointer failed."
Date: Sat, 13 Apr 2024 10:57:30 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <86cyqtr8yd.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CO6PR01MB7452015B5B8F2692D1BCFFF6CB382@CO6PR01MB7452.prod.exchangelabs.com> (rsparapa@mcw.edu)
Ping! Can we please make some progress with this issue?
> From: "Sparapani, Rodney" <rsparapa@mcw.edu>
> CC: "69870@debbugs.gnu.org" <69870@debbugs.gnu.org>
> Date: Sun, 31 Mar 2024 15:31:38 +0000
>
> We run emacs on a Linux server and display it on Macs and PCs
> with X-windows. We have about 30 users but not everyone is
> using emacs all of the time.
>
> The worst part of the problem shows this warning when emacs
> freezes after emitting this on stderr when launched
> from the command line...
> $ emacs-29.2 &
> $ Warning:
> Name: menubar
> Class: XmRowColumn
> XtGrabPointer failed.
> If launched from the window manager, you can still get the freeze,
> but you obviously won’t see the warning. So as the warning says,
> it is an attempt to activate the menubar (for me, its Files or Buffers).
> But this doesn’t happen every time. What does happen every time
> is that clicking on the menubar leads to a 10 to 20s pause (but it
> really seems longer). Sometimes you don’t realize that nothing is
> happening and you continue clicking or typing. And occasionally,
> this will lock-up emacs (emit the warning) and you have to kill it from
>
> the window manager which seems to be the only option available.
>
> When there are unsaved files, you still get a prompt for that
>
> so it is not a crash, but this is very annoying since you have
>
> to restart emacs (and of the course the menubar lag).
>
> Perhaps, this has over-loaded some event handler?
> But you can exit normally. Hopefully that helps.
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Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-03-18 15:39 bug#69870: 29.2; Simple fix for Motif "XtGrabPointer failed." Sparapani, Rodney via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-03-19 0:54 ` Po Lu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-03-19 14:20 ` Sparapani, Rodney via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-03-19 14:32 ` Po Lu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-03-31 8:16 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-03-31 15:31 ` Sparapani, Rodney via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-04-13 7:57 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2024-04-13 11:50 ` Po Lu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-04-13 12:05 ` Eli Zaretskii
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