Re: Emacs starts with current screen contents in its display buffer

[James Freer]

On Fri, 27 Jun 2014, Segundo Bob wrote:

> My system:
>
>         GNU Emacs 24.3.1 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.10.7)
> of 2014-03-07 on toyol, modified by Debian
>
>         Xubuntu32 14.04
>
> I installed Xubuntu32 14.04 on 2014-06-12.  I noticed this problem almost 
> immediately.  The screen contents belonging to other applications is NOT in 
> the emacs buffer that is saved to disk, but it is displayed. This makes emacs 
> unusable for me.
>
> I have spent several hours over these past weeks Googling for anyone 
> reporting a similar problem, but I have found no relevant information. This 
> probably means that my problem is not a widespread problem with the Ubuntu 
> release.
>
> Who is supposed to clear the "display buffers"?  Linux or Emacs?
>
> I will appreciate any help.
> --
> Segundo Bob

I am running xubuntu and I am not getting that problem.
This is what I have in my .emacs
;; Switch off start up message to have scatch buffer
(setq inhibit-startup-message t)
;; Nothing in scratch buffer
(setq initial-scratch-message nil)

There may be better ways of achieving this but I have only recently started to 
use emacs.

james