Re: Found Emacs menubar focus bug

[D. Goel <deego@gnufans.org>]

This problem appears here too.  Hence reporting as bug. 

preitsma@my-Deja.com (Preitsma) writes in comp.emacs:

> I just noticed a repeatable bug in Emacs:
> 
> Problem:  Emacs stops refreshing
> 
> Symptoms:
> 1)  Keypresses are applied (including commands like save; quit still
> quits) but not displayed.
> 2)  Emacs will not refresh if a redraw is needed (like switching away
> from and back to the virtual desktop).
> 3)  Next click of mouse is captured by Emacs (see next).
> 
> Quick fix:  clicking the mouse anywhere in the affected virtual
> desktop will unfreeze Emacs and show the changes that have occurred;
> the click will have no other effect, regardless of what was under the
> mouse.
> 
> How to get:  click on the menu bar of an Emacs window anywhere to the
> right of "Help" (the last item).  Happens every time in my version.
> 
> Version:  GNU Emacs 21.2.1 (i386-debian-linux-gnu, X toolkit, Xaw3d
> scroll bars) of 2002-03-22 on raven, modified by Debian
> 
> Just thought someone might want to know.  :)
> 
> -P


In GNU Emacs 21.2.1 (i386-debian-linux-gnu, X toolkit, Xaw3d scroll bars)
 of 2002-03-22 on raven, modified by Debian
configured using `configure  i386-debian-linux-gnu --prefix=/usr --sharedstatedir=/var/lib --libexecdir=/usr/lib --localstatedir=/var/lib --infodir=/usr/share/info --mandir=/usr/share/man --with-pop=yes --with-x=yes --with-x-toolkit=athena --without-gif'
Important settings:
  value of $LC_ALL: nil
  value of $LC_COLLATE: nil
  value of $LC_CTYPE: 
  value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil
  value of $LC_MONETARY: nil
  value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil
  value of $LC_TIME: nil
  value of $LANG: C
  locale-coding-system: nil
  default-enable-multibyte-characters: t

Please describe exactly what actions triggered the bug
and the precise symptoms of the bug:




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