Re: Emacs starts with current screen contents in its display buffer

[Rusi <rustompmody@gmail.com>]

On Saturday, June 28, 2014 6:32:56 AM UTC+5:30, Segundo Bob wrote:
> On 06/27/2014 05:02 PM, James Freer wrote:
> > On Fri, 27 Jun 2014, Segundo Bob wrote:
> >> My system:
> >>     GNU Emacs 24.3.1 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.10.7)
> >> of 2014-03-07 on toyol, modified by Debian
> >>     Xubuntu32 14.04
> >> I installed Xubuntu32 14.04 on 2014-06-12.  I noticed this problem
> >> almost immediately.  The screen contents belonging to other
> >> applications is NOT in the emacs buffer that is saved to disk, but it
> >> is displayed. This makes emacs unusable for me.
> >> I have spent several hours over these past weeks Googling for anyone
> >> reporting a similar problem, but I have found no relevant information.
> >> This probably means that my problem is not a widespread problem with
> >> the Ubuntu release.
> >> Who is supposed to clear the "display buffers"?  Linux or Emacs?
> >> I will appreciate any help.
> >> --
> >> Segundo Bob
> > I am running xubuntu and I am not getting that problem.
> > This is what I have in my .emacs
> > ;; Switch off start up message to have scatch buffer
> > (setq inhibit-startup-message t)
> > ;; Nothing in scratch buffer
> > (setq initial-scratch-message nil)
> > There may be better ways of achieving this but I have only recently
> > started to use emacs.
> > james

> Thanks for the suggestion.  I already had

> (setq inhibit-startup-message t)

> I added:

> (setq initial-scratch-message nil)

> This had no effect.

> Other ideas?  Anyone?

Probably a window-system problem more than an emacs one (just guessing).

What happens if you start with a blank screen and then start emacs using Alt-F2?