bug#7212: 23.2; GTK+ Emacs hangs when focused by clicking on blank part of menu bar

bug#7212: 23.2; GTK+ Emacs hangs when focused by clicking on blank part of menu bar

[Anders Kaseorg]

When using a GTK+ Emacs window, if I focus another application, then
refocus Emacs by clicking on the blank part of the Emacs menu bar (to
the right of the Help menu), the Emacs window stops responding:

• It is no longer possible to type into the buffer or run commands from
  the keyboard.
• The arrow keys do nothing but select toolbar buttons; Tab moves back
  to the first toolbar button.
• Using the toolbar buttons with either the keyboard or the mouse writes
  (e.g.) “tool-bar new-file” to the minibuf, but have no other effect.
• The toolbar can be detached, and the keyboard or mouse can be used to
  select things on the detached toolbar, but they still have no effect.
• The scroll bar can be dragged around but does not move the buffer.
• The window frame can be resized, but neither the buffers nor the
  scrollbar are redrawn at the new size.
• If the window was an emacsclient frame, all other open emacsclient
  frames, both graphical and terminal, stop responding in the same way.
• If I open a new emacsclient frame (of either type), I get a completely
  white window except for the caption “When done with this frame, type
  C-x 5 0”.

If I click on one of the menus (sometimes two clicks are required), it
opens, and after the menu is dismissed, Emacs begins responding normally
again.  This is the only way I’ve found to unfreeze it from this state.


In GNU Emacs 23.2.1 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.21.6)
 of 2010-09-01 on americium, modified by Debian
Windowing system distributor `The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.10900000
configured using `configure  '--build' 'x86_64-linux-gnu' '--build' 'x86_64-linux-gnu' '--prefix=/usr' '--sharedstatedir=/var/lib' '--libexecdir=/usr/lib' '--localstatedir=/var/lib' '--infodir=/usr/share/info' '--mandir=/usr/share/man' '--with-pop=yes' '--enable-locallisppath=/etc/emacs23:/etc/emacs:/usr/local/share/emacs/23.2/site-lisp:/usr/local/share/emacs/site-lisp:/usr/share/emacs/23.2/site-lisp:/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp:/usr/share/emacs/23.2/leim' '--with-x=yes' '--with-x-toolkit=gtk' '--with-toolkit-scroll-bars' 'build_alias=x86_64-linux-gnu' 'CFLAGS=-DDEBIAN -g -O2' 'LDFLAGS=-g' 'CPPFLAGS=''

Important settings:
  value of $LC_ALL: nil
  value of $LC_COLLATE: nil
  value of $LC_CTYPE: nil
  value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil
  value of $LC_MONETARY: nil
  value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil
  value of $LC_TIME: nil
  value of $LANG: en_US.utf8
  value of $XMODIFIERS: nil
  locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix
  default enable-multibyte-characters: t

Major mode: Lisp Interaction

Minor modes in effect:
  tooltip-mode: t
  mouse-wheel-mode: t
  tool-bar-mode: t
  menu-bar-mode: t
  file-name-shadow-mode: t
  global-font-lock-mode: t
  font-lock-mode: t
  blink-cursor-mode: t
  auto-encryption-mode: t
  auto-compression-mode: t
  line-number-mode: t
  transient-mark-mode: t

Recent input:
M-x r e p o r t - e m a c s - b u g <return>

Recent messages:
For information about GNU Emacs and the GNU system, type C-h C-a.

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bug#7212: 23.2; GTK+ Emacs hangs when focused by clicking on blank part of menu bar

[Jan Djärv]

2010-10-14 02:26, Anders Kaseorg skrev:
> When using a GTK+ Emacs window, if I focus another application, then
> refocus Emacs by clicking on the blank part of the Emacs menu bar (to
> the right of the Help menu), the Emacs window stops responding:

This is a duplicate of bug#6499 
(http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=6499) and has been fixed in the 
emacs-23 branch (upcoming emacs 23.3 version).

Thanks,

	Jan D.