From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Chong Yidong Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#12279: 24.2.50; x-window-property always returns nil Date: Sun, 26 Aug 2012 21:51:06 +0800 Message-ID: <87bohx7odx.fsf@gnu.org> References: <874nnrhwwk.fsf@thinkpad.tsdh.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1345989142 1544 80.91.229.3 (26 Aug 2012 13:52:22 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 26 Aug 2012 13:52:22 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 12279@debbugs.gnu.org To: Tassilo Horn Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Aug 26 15:52:22 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-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 1T5dGI-0004Tv-Gf for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 26 Aug 2012 15:52:22 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:51972 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1T5dGG-0004Pr-Hi for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 26 Aug 2012 09:52:20 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:56549) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1T5dGD-0004Pa-GW for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 26 Aug 2012 09:52:18 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1T5dGB-00035x-CW for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 26 Aug 2012 09:52:17 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.43]:40093) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1T5dGB-00035t-9G for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 26 Aug 2012 09:52:15 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1T5dGv-0003eN-T0 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 26 Aug 2012 09:53:02 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Chong Yidong Original-Sender: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Sun, 26 Aug 2012 13:53:01 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 12279 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 12279-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B12279.134598913113975 (code B ref 12279); Sun, 26 Aug 2012 13:53:01 +0000 Original-Received: (at 12279) by debbugs.gnu.org; 26 Aug 2012 13:52:11 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:49638 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1T5dG2-0003dH-24 for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Sun, 26 Aug 2012 09:52:11 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-pb0-f44.google.com ([209.85.160.44]:57494) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1T5dFv-0003co-JX for 12279@debbugs.gnu.org; Sun, 26 Aug 2012 09:52:04 -0400 Original-Received: by pbbrr4 with SMTP id rr4so5946322pbb.3 for <12279@debbugs.gnu.org>; Sun, 26 Aug 2012 06:51:11 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=sender:from:to:cc:subject:references:date:in-reply-to:message-id :user-agent:mime-version:content-type; bh=geH2Io3hlGLrRMZIhLHjhDSWLipKoTdNy6bEEnScCRw=; b=rTVPmJsDZzzR768rkv0hbUfEiWQdCVaPqyjX9JKkXtaNGiH4OH175F+kC1eSZ66P6H 6wVDxTrGcyFUMEmaN3+xoQ6p1m5XBK1hvN0Rd/tbGT2h3b8QY9nyEOBja86apdAsXmCx W2bDSS2M3hRbY2+wQor3gY+xJop6vAqlvsMyzFbg5G8+licbT11Gp+Bsp79YYUvfxq+c Iij4tlCpUrp4ROOIqlKRSN29viuQchGhY4JPxrNFhrd7jKXSndxxNEt8XRPcySxHx5PZ nQlU3+cOKP3iL53npDJgw32dMrBxTdu9RI0GSzeT95T+KKARgf30cAETSDqapkF0C8aj pnrw== Original-Received: by 10.68.218.72 with SMTP id pe8mr27577863pbc.33.1345989071384; Sun, 26 Aug 2012 06:51:11 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from ulysses (cm162.gamma80.maxonline.com.sg. [202.156.80.162]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id qo8sm12578354pbb.19.2012.08.26.06.51.08 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Sun, 26 Aug 2012 06:51:10 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <874nnrhwwk.fsf@thinkpad.tsdh.de> (Tassilo Horn's message of "Sat, 25 Aug 2012 16:33:35 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.2.50 (gnu/linux) X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.13 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-Received-From: 140.186.70.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:63505 Archived-At: Tassilo Horn writes: > Running GNU/Linux with Xorg, since some time I cannot get X window > properties anymore, that is, using emacs -Q (3 days old bzr checkout), > all of these return nil: > > (x-window-property "WM_HINTS" nil "WM_HINTS" nil nil t) > (x-window-property "WM_PROTOCOLS") > (x-window-property "WM_NAME") > > I used xprop to get all X properies of the emacs frame itself, and I > can't get any of them using `x-window-property'. > > In GNU Emacs 24.2.50.1 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.4.4) > of 2012-08-23 on thinkpad Can't really reproduce. With latest trunk, also with a GTK 3 build (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.4.2), I get M-: (x-window-property "WM_HINTS" nil "WM_HINTS" nil nil t) ==> [2 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0] I do get nil when looking up WM_PROTOCOLS and WM_NAME, but that is the case on 24.1 as well. On a Emacs 23.4 build with X toolkit, looking up WM_PROTOCOLS gives "" and looking up WM_NAME gives nil.