Re: [AUCTeX] Re: problem getting AUCTeX up and running

[Brett Presnell]

Ralf Angeli <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> [Keeping the list copied as it now becomes _really_ interesting.]
>
> * Andrew Wilson (2005-06-22) writes:
>
>> For your information, I am not using KDE, but Gnome. I'm not sure if
>> that will help sort things out. ALW
>
> Now _this_ is new.  All the reports we have received about this issue
> until now were related to KDE.  Could this be Motif-only thing?  I
> downloaded the Lesstif sources and grepped through them to no avail.
> Maybe somebody else knows what the culprit is?

I doubt very seriously that this is anything new.  We had the same
problem, even though we were using Gnome and not KDE under gentoo (KDE
was not even installed).  That does leave unexplained why the bug
bites us, but ...

Anyway, as you can see in my comments to the gentoo bug that you cited
in a previous message,
<URL:http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18518>, our fix was to
recompile emacs with different "USE flags" for the X11 toolkits, i.e.,
with the command

USE="Xaw3d -motif" emerge emacs

Until something else (not auctex) changes, I think that this is by far
the best solution, because it also stops another really annoying
behaviour in the default gentoo emacs install, which is that an
annoying motif "find file" dialogue box pops up everytime you try to
load a file and it requires mouse interaction to go away.

Motif basically sucks.

-- 
Brett Presnell
Department of Statistics
University of Florida
http://www.stat.ufl.edu/~presnell/

"We don't think that the popularity of an error makes it the truth."
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