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29.2; Simple fix for Motif "XtGrabPointer failed."

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From: "Sparapani, Rodney" <rsparapa <at> mcw.edu>
To: "bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org" <bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org>
Subject: 29.2; Simple fix for Motif "XtGrabPointer failed."
Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2024 15:39:16 +0000

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For many years we had used LUCID scrollbars that didn't
work very well (so nobody was really using them).  Recently,
we switched to the Motif scrollbars that are much nicer.
However, there is an annoying menubar issue.  Often X-windows
emacs will freeze after emitting this on stderr when launched
from the command line...
$ emacs-29.2 &
$ Warning:
    Name: menubar
    Class: XmRowColumn
    XtGrabPointer failed.
Usually, this will lock-up emacs and you have to kill it from
the window manager which seems to be the only option available.
When there are unsaved files, you still get a prompt for that
so it is not a crash, but just very annoying.
However, I realized that this bug/feature had already been
addressed for LUCID scrollbars in lwlib/xlwmenu.c but that code
is inactive for Motif.  So the simple solution is to uncomment
this block from lines 2906 to 2913 for Motif as well...
//#ifdef emacs
  if (x_had_errors_p (display))
    {
      pointer_grabbed = 0;
      XtUngrabPointer ((Widget)mw, event->time);
    }
  x_uncatch_errors ();
//#endif


In GNU Emacs 29.2 (build 1, x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, Motif Version 2.3.4,
cairo version 1.15.12) of 2024-03-18 built on gouda.biostat.mcw.edu
Windowing system distributor 'The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.12101006
System Description: CentOS Linux 7 (Core)

Configured using:
'configure --prefix=/usr/local/emacs/29.2 --with-x-toolkit=motif
--with-gnutls 'CFLAGS=-g -O2 -mtune=native''

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LIBSELINUX LIBXML2 MODULES NOTIFY INOTIFY PDUMPER PNG SOUND THREADS TIFF
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--
Rodney Sparapani, Associate Professor of Biostatistics, He/Him/His
Vice President, Wisconsin Chapter of the American Statistical Association
Institute for Health and Equity, Division of Biostatistics
Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee Campus

If this is outside of working hours, then please respond when convenient.

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Message #8 received at 69870 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Po Lu <luangruo <at> yahoo.com>
To: "Sparapani, Rodney" <rsparapa <at> mcw.edu>
Cc: 69870 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#69870: 29.2; Simple fix for Motif "XtGrabPointer failed."
Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2024 08:54:29 +0800

"Sparapani, Rodney" <rsparapa <at> mcw.edu> writes:
> Usually, this will lock-up emacs and you have to kill it from
>
> the window manager which seems to be the only option available.
>
> When there are unsaved files, you still get a prompt for that

> so it is not a crash, but just very annoying.
>
> However, I realized that this bug/feature had already been
>
> addressed for LUCID scrollbars in lwlib/xlwmenu.c but that code
>
> is inactive for Motif.  So the simple solution is to uncomment 
>
> this block from lines 2906 to 2913 for Motif as well...
>
> //#ifdef emacs
>
>   if (x_had_errors_p (display))
>
>     {
>
>       pointer_grabbed = 0;
>
>       XtUngrabPointer ((Widget)mw, event->time);
>
>     }
>
>   x_uncatch_errors ();
>
> //#endif

The macro emacs is always defined, and this block of code relies on the
presence of an earlier call to x_catch_errors, which would not have been
satisified if this "#ifdef emacs" was inactive.  Therefore, something
else is at work here.

Message #11 received at 69870 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: "Sparapani, Rodney" <rsparapa <at> mcw.edu>
To: Po Lu <luangruo <at> yahoo.com>
Cc: "69870 <at> debbugs.gnu.org" <69870 <at> debbugs.gnu.org>
Subject: Re: bug#69870: 29.2; Simple fix for Motif "XtGrabPointer failed."
Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2024 14:20:17 +0000

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Hi Po:

I didn’t realize that emacs is always defined (so what’s the point ;o)

How would I go about debugging this issue?  I have been trying to
figure this out for months.  Thanks

--
Rodney Sparapani, Associate Professor of Biostatistics, He/Him/His
Vice President, Wisconsin Chapter of the American Statistical Association
Institute for Health and Equity, Division of Biostatistics
Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee Campus

If this is outside of working hours, then please respond when convenient.

From: Po Lu <luangruo <at> yahoo.com>
Date: Monday, March 18, 2024 at 7:54 PM
To: Sparapani, Rodney <rsparapa <at> mcw.edu>
Cc: 69870 <at> debbugs.gnu.org <69870 <at> debbugs.gnu.org>
Subject: Re: bug#69870: 29.2; Simple fix for Motif "XtGrabPointer failed."
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________________________________

The macro emacs is always defined, and this block of code relies on the
presence of an earlier call to x_catch_errors, which would not have been
satisified if this "#ifdef emacs" was inactive.  Therefore, something
else is at work here.

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Message #14 received at 69870 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Po Lu <luangruo <at> yahoo.com>
To: "Sparapani, Rodney" <rsparapa <at> mcw.edu>
Cc: "69870 <at> debbugs.gnu.org" <69870 <at> debbugs.gnu.org>
Subject: Re: bug#69870: 29.2; Simple fix for Motif "XtGrabPointer failed."
Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2024 22:32:07 +0800

"Sparapani, Rodney" <rsparapa <at> mcw.edu> writes:

> I didn’t realize that emacs is always defined (so what’s the point ;o)

At some time it was intended that the Lucid widget library could be
integrated into other programs (as the company who wrote it many moons
ago did put into practice), but that has long since been neither a
feature of any importance to us nor possible.

> How would I go about debugging this issue?  I have been trying to
> figure this out for months.  Thanks.

Please start by recounting what immediately precedes the appearance of
such an error message, in your experience.

Message #17 received at 69870 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: rsparapa <at> mcw.edu, Po Lu <luangruo <at> yahoo.com>
Cc: 69870 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#69870: 29.2; Simple fix for Motif "XtGrabPointer failed."
Date: Sun, 31 Mar 2024 11:16:17 +0300

Ping! Rodney, could you please provide the details requested by Po Lu,
so we could make some progress here?

> Cc: "69870 <at> debbugs.gnu.org" <69870 <at> debbugs.gnu.org>
> Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2024 22:32:07 +0800
> From:  Po Lu via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs,
>  the Swiss army knife of text editors" <bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org>
> 
> "Sparapani, Rodney" <rsparapa <at> mcw.edu> writes:
> 
> > I didn’t realize that emacs is always defined (so what’s the point ;o)
> 
> At some time it was intended that the Lucid widget library could be
> integrated into other programs (as the company who wrote it many moons
> ago did put into practice), but that has long since been neither a
> feature of any importance to us nor possible.
> 
> > How would I go about debugging this issue?  I have been trying to
> > figure this out for months.  Thanks.
> 
> Please start by recounting what immediately precedes the appearance of
> such an error message, in your experience.
> 
> 
> 
> 

Message #20 received at 69870 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: "Sparapani, Rodney" <rsparapa <at> mcw.edu>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>, Po Lu <luangruo <at> yahoo.com>
Cc: "69870 <at> debbugs.gnu.org" <69870 <at> debbugs.gnu.org>
Subject: Re: bug#69870: 29.2; Simple fix for Motif "XtGrabPointer failed."
Date: Sun, 31 Mar 2024 15:31:38 +0000

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We run emacs on a Linux server and display it on Macs and PCs
with X-windows.  We have about 30 users but not everyone is
using emacs all of the time.

The worst part of the problem shows this warning when emacs
freezes after emitting this on stderr when launched
from the command line...
$ emacs-29.2 &
$ Warning:
    Name: menubar
    Class: XmRowColumn
    XtGrabPointer failed.
If launched from the window manager, you can still get the freeze,
but you obviously won’t see the warning.  So as the warning says,
it is an attempt to activate the menubar (for me, its Files or Buffers).
But this doesn’t happen every time.  What does happen every time
is that clicking on the menubar leads to a 10 to 20s pause (but it
really seems longer).  Sometimes you don’t realize that nothing is
happening and you continue clicking or typing.  And occasionally,
this will lock-up emacs (emit the warning) and you have to kill it from

the window manager which seems to be the only option available.

When there are unsaved files, you still get a prompt for that

so it is not a crash, but this is very annoying since you have

to restart emacs (and of the course the menubar lag).

Perhaps, this has over-loaded some event handler?
But you can exit normally.  Hopefully that helps.

--
Rodney Sparapani, Associate Professor of Biostatistics, He/Him/His
Vice President, Wisconsin Chapter of the American Statistical Association
Institute for Health and Equity, Division of Biostatistics
Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee Campus


From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Date: Sunday, March 31, 2024 at 3:16 AM
To: Sparapani, Rodney <rsparapa <at> mcw.edu>, Po Lu <luangruo <at> yahoo.com>
Cc: 69870 <at> debbugs.gnu.org <69870 <at> debbugs.gnu.org>
Subject: Re: bug#69870: 29.2; Simple fix for Motif "XtGrabPointer failed."
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Ping! Rodney, could you please provide the details requested by Po Lu,
so we could make some progress here?

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Message #23 received at 69870 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: luangruo <at> yahoo.com, "Sparapani, Rodney" <rsparapa <at> mcw.edu>
Cc: 69870 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#69870: 29.2; Simple fix for Motif "XtGrabPointer failed."
Date: Sat, 13 Apr 2024 10:57:30 +0300

Ping!  Can we please make some progress with this issue?

> From: "Sparapani, Rodney" <rsparapa <at> mcw.edu>
> CC: "69870 <at> debbugs.gnu.org" <69870 <at> debbugs.gnu.org>
> Date: Sun, 31 Mar 2024 15:31:38 +0000
> 
> We run emacs on a Linux server and display it on Macs and PCs
> with X-windows.  We have about 30 users but not everyone is
> using emacs all of the time.
> 
> The worst part of the problem shows this warning when emacs
> freezes after emitting this on stderr when launched
> from the command line...
> $ emacs-29.2 &
> $ Warning:
>     Name: menubar
>     Class: XmRowColumn
>     XtGrabPointer failed.
> If launched from the window manager, you can still get the freeze,
> but you obviously won’t see the warning.  So as the warning says,
> it is an attempt to activate the menubar (for me, its Files or Buffers).
> But this doesn’t happen every time.  What does happen every time
> is that clicking on the menubar leads to a 10 to 20s pause (but it
> really seems longer).  Sometimes you don’t realize that nothing is
> happening and you continue clicking or typing.  And occasionally,
> this will lock-up emacs (emit the warning) and you have to kill it from
> 
> the window manager which seems to be the only option available.
> 
> When there are unsaved files, you still get a prompt for that
> 
> so it is not a crash, but this is very annoying since you have
> 
> to restart emacs (and of the course the menubar lag).
> 
> Perhaps, this has over-loaded some event handler?
> But you can exit normally.  Hopefully that helps.

Message #26 received at 69870 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Po Lu <luangruo <at> yahoo.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 69870 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, "Sparapani, Rodney" <rsparapa <at> mcw.edu>
Subject: Re: bug#69870: 29.2; Simple fix for Motif "XtGrabPointer failed."
Date: Sat, 13 Apr 2024 19:50:14 +0800

Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:

> Ping!  Can we please make some progress with this issue?

I thought that I explained this problem in this report, and that Rodney
has also found a workaround to his liking.  This behavior is network
latency at work, compounded by certain deficiencies in the toolkit's
implementation, which is not an issue that we are in any position to
address.

Message #31 received at 69870-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Po Lu <luangruo <at> yahoo.com>
Cc: 69870-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org, rsparapa <at> mcw.edu
Subject: Re: bug#69870: 29.2; Simple fix for Motif "XtGrabPointer failed."
Date: Sat, 13 Apr 2024 15:05:35 +0300

> From: Po Lu <luangruo <at> yahoo.com>
> Cc: "Sparapani, Rodney" <rsparapa <at> mcw.edu>,  69870 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Sat, 13 Apr 2024 19:50:14 +0800
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:
> 
> > Ping!  Can we please make some progress with this issue?
> 
> I thought that I explained this problem in this report, and that Rodney
> has also found a workaround to his liking.  This behavior is network
> latency at work, compounded by certain deficiencies in the toolkit's
> implementation, which is not an issue that we are in any position to
> address.

Thanks, closing.

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