Bug 711739

Summary: emacs stops responding to user input
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Steve <kkbbf81jd6>
Component: emacsAssignee: Karel Klíč <kklic>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: 15CC: agw, eggert, jik, jonathan.underwood, kklic, rvokal, tagoh
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Fixed In Version: emacs-23.3-8.fc16 Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Description Steve 2011-06-08 10:19:11 UTC 
Description of problem:
emacs stops responding to mouse and keyboard input when minimised and later restored.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
Name        : emacs
Epoch       : 1
Version     : 23.2
Release     : 19.fc15     Fedora 15 with all updates applied
Architecture: x86_64


How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. login
2. open a gnome terminal window
3. type 'emacs &' at the command line prompt
4. minimise the emacs window using Ctrl + Z
5. restore the emacs window using Alt + TAB
  
Actual results:
The emacs cursor is no longer blinking, and emacs is no longer responding to keyboard or mouse input.

Expected results:
emacs responds to keyboard and mouse input.

Additional info:
if you add step 6 to the above sequence:
6. maximise the emacs window

then the cursor does reappear and emacs continues working normally.
The problem did not occur in Fedora 14, so I think the problem may be related to the upgrade to GNOME 3.
Comment 1 Akira TAGOH 2011-07-06 02:19:45 UTC 
I see the same issue on GNOME3 but no problem on XFCE. so the issue may be in gnome-shell or mutter? dunno. anyway FYI.
Comment 2 Paul Eggert 2011-10-27 22:39:14 UTC 
This problem came up recently on the Emacs developers' mailing list.  It also occurs with the latest-and-greatest Emacs on the Emacs development trunk.  I have filed an Emacs bug report <http://debbugs.gnu.org/9893> in case it is a problem with Emacs and not with the Gnome shell.
Comment 3 Karel Klíč 2011-11-23 09:58:07 UTC 
*** Bug 721183 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 4 Karel Klíč 2011-11-23 10:05:03 UTC 
Created attachment 535385 [details]
Backported patch
Comment 5 Karel Klíč 2011-11-23 10:15:07 UTC 
emacs-23.3-15.fc17
Comment 6 Fedora Update System 2011-11-23 10:57:18 UTC 
emacs-23.3-8.fc16 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 16.
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/emacs-23.3-8.fc16
Comment 7 Fedora Update System 2011-11-23 23:27:08 UTC 
Package emacs-23.3-8.fc16:
* should fix your issue,
* was pushed to the Fedora 16 testing repository,
* should be available at your local mirror within two days.
Update it with:
# su -c 'yum update --enablerepo=updates-testing emacs-23.3-8.fc16'
as soon as you are able to.
Please go to the following url:
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2011-16302/emacs-23.3-8.fc16
then log in and leave karma (feedback).
Comment 8 Karel Klíč 2011-11-24 16:47:32 UTC 
*** Bug 741695 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 9 Fedora Update System 2011-11-25 02:21:21 UTC 
emacs-23.3-8.fc16 has been pushed to the Fedora 16 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
Comment 10 Art Werschulz 2011-11-28 15:32:25 UTC 
Any chance of this being fixed for Fedora 15?
Comment 11 Karel Klíč 2011-11-28 16:42:39 UTC 
Sure. First, we need to get Emacs 23.3 to Fedora 15, and make sure there are no regressions in such a big update:

https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2011-16246/emacs-23.3-7.fc15

When this update land in F15, I can prepare another one adding this bug.