RE: Often lose window decoration when restore from standby

["KARR, DAVID (ATTCINW)" <dk068x at att dot com>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jon TURNEY [mailto:jon.turney@dronecode.org.uk]
> Sent: Wednesday, July 15, 2009 10:52 AM
> To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
> Cc: KARR, DAVID (ATTCINW)
> Subject: Re: Often lose window decoration when restore from standby
> 
> On 13/07/2009 20:35, KARR, DAVID (ATTCINW) wrote:
> > I'm using Cygwin 1.5.25 on WinXPSP2, along with Cygwin-built GNU
> Emacs
> > 23.0.92.1.
> >
> > I run startxwin.bat on system startup.  After it comes up, I run
> Emacs,
> > and I get a good window with normal Windows-based window
decorations.
> > My Windows shortcut does this:
> >
> >     C:\cygwin\bin\rxvt.exe -geometry 1x1 -ls -cd
> c:\cygwin\home\dk068x -e
> > /usr/bin/bash -l -c /usr/bin/emacs
> >
> > I often find that after I restore from Standby, I see an odd
symptom,
> in
> > that the Emacs window no longer has any window decorations.  The
edge
> of
> > the Emacs menu bar is the edge of the window.  If I kill the Emacs
> > process and start it again from the shortcut, even that doesn't fix
> it.
> > What fixes it is killing the Xwin process, rerunning startxwin.bat,
> and
> > then rerunning Emacs.
> 
> Very interesting, but I'm afraid I can't reproduce this problem.
> 
> Does this only affect emacs? or all X windows?
> 
> This might be caused by the internal WM thread not being able to talk
> to the
> server anymore after a resume, but I would have thought that would
> cause the
> whole process to terminate...
> 
> Can I see a /var/log/Xwin.0.log, please?

Attached is the latest XWin.0.log, after I noticed the window
decorations gone again.  I'm not sure if it's happening with other X
apps.  This is the only one I use right now.

Attachment: XWin.0.log
Description: XWin.0.log

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