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25.1; Timeout waiting for property notify event when select-active-regions is t

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From: Brady Garvin <bgarvin <at> acm.org>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: 25.1;
 Timeout waiting for property notify event when select-active-regions
 is t
Date: Sat, 19 Aug 2017 10:03:19 -0500

1. Start Emacs (under X):
    $ emacs -Q
2. Type M-x 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 RET C-SPC M-<

Expected behavior: The region encompasses the entire scratch buffer,
including the million new blank lines, and the region is highlighted.

Actual behavior: Emacs hangs for a few moments and then reports "Timed
out waiting for property-notify event".  Subsequently, the region is
correct and correctly highlighted.  (The entire actual behavior,
however, is correct when select-active-regions is nil.)

Quite possibly a bug in X, not Emacs, but I can reliably reproduce the
problem ever since upgrading to Ubuntu 17.04, so if there are steps I
can take to help debug, please let me know.

Possibly already discussed at
http://emacs.1067599.n8.nabble.com/bug-13486-24-2-92-large-X-selections-timed-out-waiting-for-property-notify-event-td275798.html.



In GNU Emacs 25.1.1 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.22.11)
 of 2017-03-29, modified by Debian built on lgw01-37
Windowing system distributor 'The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.11903000
System Description:	Ubuntu 17.04

Configured using:
 'configure --build x86_64-linux-gnu --prefix=/usr
 --sharedstatedir=/var/lib --libexecdir=/usr/lib
 --localstatedir=/var/lib --infodir=/usr/share/info
 --mandir=/usr/share/man --with-pop=yes
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ACL LIBSELINUX GNUTLS LIBXML2 FREETYPE M17N_FLT LIBOTF XFT ZLIB
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Important settings:
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  value of $XMODIFIERS: @im=ibus
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Major mode: Lisp Interaction

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Recent messages:
For information about GNU Emacs and the GNU system, type C-h C-a.
Mark set
Timed out waiting for property-notify event

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Message #8 received at 28146 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Brady Garvin <bgarvin <at> acm.org>
Cc: 28146 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#28146: 25.1;
 Timeout waiting for property notify event when select-active-regions
 is t
Date: Sat, 19 Aug 2017 19:14:10 +0300

> From: Brady Garvin <bgarvin <at> acm.org>
> Date: Sat, 19 Aug 2017 10:03:19 -0500
> 
> 1. Start Emacs (under X):
>     $ emacs -Q
> 2. Type M-x 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 RET C-SPC M-<
> 
> Expected behavior: The region encompasses the entire scratch buffer,
> including the million new blank lines, and the region is highlighted.
> 
> Actual behavior: Emacs hangs for a few moments and then reports "Timed
> out waiting for property-notify event".  Subsequently, the region is
> correct and correctly highlighted.  (The entire actual behavior,
> however, is correct when select-active-regions is nil.)

This problem and its possible workaround are described in
etc/PROBLEMS; search for "Timed out waiting for property-notify
event".

See also bug#24013, which led to that entry in PROBLEMS.

Message #13 received at 28146 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Achim Gratz <Stromeko <at> nexgo.de>
Cc: 24013 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, 28146 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#28146: 25.1; Timeout waiting for property notify event when
 select-active-regions is t
Date: Mon, 05 Jul 2021 15:41:53 +0200

Achim Gratz <Stromeko <at> nexgo.de> writes:

> +*** KDE / Plasma 5: Emacs exhausts memory and needs to be killed

This was almost five years ago, and I can't recall seeing any recent bug
reports about this (and I can't reproduce it myself, but I'm not using
KDE).

Is this problem still an issue in more recent versions of
KDE/Plasma/Emacs?

-- 
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
   bloggy blog: http://lars.ingebrigtsen.no

Message #18 received at 28146 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Achim Gratz <Stromeko <at> nexgo.de>
Cc: 24013 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, 28146 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#24013: 25.0.95; [KDE/Plasma 5] Emacs 25.x uses up all
 memory and needs to be killed
Date: Wed, 04 Aug 2021 13:29:06 +0200

Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org> writes:

> Achim Gratz <Stromeko <at> nexgo.de> writes:
>
>> +*** KDE / Plasma 5: Emacs exhausts memory and needs to be killed
>
> This was almost five years ago, and I can't recall seeing any recent bug
> reports about this (and I can't reproduce it myself, but I'm not using
> KDE).
>
> Is this problem still an issue in more recent versions of
> KDE/Plasma/Emacs?

More information was requested, but no response was given within a
month, so I'm closing this bug report.  If the problem still exists,
please respond to this email and we'll reopen the bug report.

-- 
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
   bloggy blog: http://lars.ingebrigtsen.no

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