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minibufs active on only one frame

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From: David Karr
Date: Thu, 06 Oct 1994 07:45
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Gnu Emacsv19.25, Sun IPX, OSv4.1.3, Motif mwm.

I have a user who manages to get his Emacs into a strange state with
respect to frames and his minibuffer.  Once in this state, he has to
kill his Emacs to fix it.

He will have several normal frames open, and he will click on one (WM
click-to-type) to give it focus, and the text cursor goes from outline
to filled, indicating it has the focus, then he will press M-x to
enter a command, but the minibuffer on that frame doesn't show
anything.  He notices that the "M-x" shows up on a DIFFERENT frame,
even though the focus is still on the original frame.  From then on,
that frame that is showing the minibuffer gets the minibuffer output,
no matter what frame the keys are pressed on.  If we delete the frame
that is getting the minibuffer output and repeat the test, then some
other frame then gets the minibuffer "focus", no matter which frame
the keys are pressed on.

After he kills his Emacs and restarts, this behavior goes away (until
it comes back).

I've tried looking at the output of "minibuffer-frame-list", and it
shows all the frames he has, not just the one that gets the minibuffer
"focus".  Is there any other debug information I can get?

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Subject: minibufs active on only one frame
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