bug#35961: 27.0.50; Sometimes frame freezes and stops updating (almost entirely)

[Basil L. Contovounesios]

Dmitry Gutov <dgutov@yandex.ru> writes:

> On 28.05.2019 19:04, Basil L. Contovounesios wrote:
>
>> I use xmonad as my (tiling) window manager, and FWIW your description
>> sounds almost identical to what happens to my Emacs session (master and
>> emacs-26, with or without -Q) when I type C-z (suspend-frame), which in
>> turn calls iconify-or-deiconify-frame.
>
> Interesting. I think I've heard about xmonad-related problems before. Maybe
> there are even existing bug reports.

Quite likely, but I'm not sure I'd consider my description a "problem".
AFAIK, xmonad doesn't have a concept of iconifying a frame by default,
so the current behaviour of suspend-frame seems fine to me.

> So you can reproduce the problem at will,

Yes, all it takes is C-z.

> and there's no way to "resume" a frame after it happens?

The only way I know to "resume" the frame is to switch to another frame
and back again.

-- 
Basil