On 12/11/18 3:34 PM, George Avrunin wrote:
> On Sat, 8 Dec 2018 23:29:35 -0500, Robert McBroom via users
> <users@lists.fedoraproject.org> wrote:
>
>> Upgraded to F29. On KDE desktop starting EMACS in a privileged command
>> window locks the system. Starting EMACS with sudo locks the system. On
>> XFCE4 normal EMACS access with privilege.
>>
>> Other file managers don't like root but there are times when cli is awkward.
> I'm now seeing this, too, with F29, kernel 4.19.7, on KDE.  I'm pretty sure
> doing this has worked as expected after the upgrade to F29, so it's a recent
> change, but I don't know exactly when it started. I'm seeing this with two
> different machines (a desktop and a laptop).  This is
> emacs-26.1.6.f29.x86_64, in case that matters, and, at the moment,
> plasma-workspace-5.14.4-1.fc29.x86_64 which was upgraded to on December 5.
>
> It doesn't actually lock the system.  I can, for instance get to a virtual
> terminal and kill the startkde process to get back to roughly where I was.
> And I can still see the cursor and move it around (though it becomes invisible when it's over the konsole window from which I launched emacs), but except for being able to use, e.g., control-F3, to get to a console, I don't seem to be able to interact with the open windows or switch to another virtual desktop (cursor won't cross the desktop boundary).
>
> The command "emacs -nw" seems to work fine. On kernel 4.19.6
>
>    George
>
>
Same here on a desktop and a laptop. Switched to gnome-session and have access. On kernel 4.19.6

and plasma-workspace-5.14.4-1 trouble.

Robert