emacs resize hangs F7!

Robert P. J. Day rpjday at mindspring.com
Fri Aug 31 16:35:58 UTC 2007


On Fri, 31 Aug 2007, Gordon Messmer wrote:

> William Murray wrote:
> >   Hello all,
> >         I amusing emacs on an up-to-date F7 box (emacs-22.1-1.fc7).
> > If I attempt to resize the window by dragging the border the input
> > freezes for minutes. I can move the mouse and watch my system monitor
> > colours scrolling, but cannot click on anything or type.
>
> It's in bugzilla, as bug # 224611
>
> The bug's been tracked and discussed for quite a while, so there's a
> lot of feedback in there already.  Take a look, and see if any of
> the workarounds or patches fix the problem for you.

in a nutshell, turn off your "Assistive Technology Preferences."
that's what fixed it for me.

rday
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