I have metacity-2.19.21-1.fc8, emacs-22.1-1.fc8, and other devel packages (yum update against devel says there's nothing to update). When I click on one of the edges of my emacs window and try to resize it, the window does not appear to resize, the cursor locks in the resize shape, and suddenly I can't give mouse or keyboard input to any windows, including the emacs window. However, the X server isn't completely locked up. Windows that are active continue to draw, and I can get things to go back to normal by switching to a different VT with Ctrl-Alt-F1 and then back with Alt-F7 or Alt-F8 (depending on where the X server is running). When I do this, I discover that the mouse has returned to its normal shape and the Emacs window has, in fact, resized. The same problem occurs if I right-click on the Emacs window's title bar -- I can no longer select or give input to any windows, and I have to switch to another VT and back to regain control. This appears to only happen with Emacs windows.
This problem went away for a while in devel but has returned recently -- I'm seeing it again with current devel packages (current as of today).
Can you confirm that this goes away if you turn off accessibility? If so, it's almost certainly http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=392889 that you are seeing. (That GNOME bug changed from being a flamewar about raise-window in emacs to a metacity lock-up).
I don't think I have accessibility turned on, but if you tell me how to check, I'll do that. I opened the keyboard accessibility control panel and the enable checkbox isn't checked there. Is there somewhere else I should check?
In System/Preferences/Personal/"Assistive Technology Preferences", do you have "Enable assistive technologies" checked? If you do, try turning it off and log out/log in.
Yes, disabling that checkbox seems to make the problem go away.
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I have that bug on rawhide (FC preview), and disabling assistive technologies makes the problem go away for me, so the bug is still there in rawhide.
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