Multiple displays: freezing on selection (21.3.2, SunOS 5.8)

[Eric Ewanco]

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In GNU Emacs 21.3.2 (sparc-sun-solaris2.8, X toolkit)
 of 2004-08-10 on swdev103
configured using `configure  --prefix=/opt/emacs-21.3'
Important settings:
  value of $LC_ALL: nil
  value of $LC_COLLATE: nil
  value of $LC_CTYPE: nil
  value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil
  value of $LC_MONETARY: nil
  value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil
  value of $LC_TIME: nil
  value of $LANG: nil
  locale-coding-system: nil
  default-enable-multibyte-characters: t

Please describe exactly what actions triggered the bug
and the precise symptoms of the bug:

1) Invoke X Windows version of Emacs 21.3 (or any earlier version as
   far back as I can remember) under Solaris with --no-init-file
   --no-site-file options.

2) Create a buffer with text; C-h n or C-h i is fine.

3) Use File/Make Frame on Display menu or M-x make-frame-on-display
   and enter your current display.  Another frame will come up.  

4) Using the mouse, select text in the current window (so that it
   turns blue).

5) Go to the other window.  You will be unable to do anything in this
   window except select menu items (which are not executed); it is
   frozen.

6) Go to the first window.  Unselect.

7) Go to the second window.  You can now use this window.  Whatever
   events you tried to execute while frozen are now processed. 

I know this doesn't happen under Linux using the same X server (which,
in my case, is eXceed 8 under Windows 2000), so it seems to be a bug
peculiar to SunOS.  Note also that it doesn't happen with "New Frame",
only with "New Frame on Display", regardless of whether the display is
the same X server or not.

I have seen this bug for many years.  Obviously very annoying if you
bring up one window at work and one at home!

Recent input:
<mouse-movement> <mouse-movement> <mouse-movement> 
<mouse-movement> <mouse-movement> <mouse-movement> 
<mouse-movement> <mouse-movement> <mouse-movement> 
<mouse-movement> <mouse-movement> <mouse-movement> 
<mouse-movement> <mouse-movement> <mouse-movement> 
<mouse-movement> <mouse-movement> <mouse-movement> 
<mouse-movement> <mouse-movement> <mouse-movement> 
<mouse-movement> <mouse-movement> <mouse-movement> 
<mouse-movement> <mouse-movement> <mouse-movement> 
<mouse-movement> <mouse-movement> <mouse-movement> 
<mouse-movement> <mouse-movement> <mouse-movement> 
<mouse-movement> <mouse-movement> <mouse-movement> 
<mouse-movement> <mouse-movement> <mouse-movement> 
<mouse-movement> <mouse-movement> <mouse-movement> 
<mouse-movement> <mouse-movement> <mouse-movement> 
<mouse-movement> <mouse-movement> <mouse-movement> 
<mouse-movement> <mouse-movement> <mouse-movement> 
<drag-mouse-1> <down-mouse-1> <mouse-1> <switch-frame> 
<help-echo> <down-mouse-1> <mouse-1> <down-mouse-1> 
<mouse-1> <down-mouse-1> <drag-mouse-1> <down-mouse-1> 
<drag-mouse-1> <down-mouse-1> <drag-mouse-1> <down-mouse-1> 
<drag-mouse-1> <down-mouse-1> <drag-mouse-1> <down-mouse-1> 
<drag-mouse-1> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> 
<menu-bar> <edit> <search> <search-forward> C-g <help-echo> 
<help-echo> M-x r e p o r t - e m a c s - b u g <r
eturn>

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