Strange behaviour with epoch and gnus

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3 total messages Started by Dirk Lutzebaeck Thu, 25 Jul 1991 08:07

#478

Author: Dirk Lutzebaeck
Date: Thu, 25 Jul 1991 08:07

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I have a very strange behaviour using gnus inside an epoch screen
with version emacs-18.55/epoch-3.2pl0 and emacs-18.57/epoch-3.2pl2 too
(under SUNOS 4.1):

My startup for gnus looks like this:

epoch -l .xinit.el

.xinit.el:

;;; gnus-screen

(select-screen
 (create-screen 'nil 
		'((title . "Gnus")
		  (icon-name . "Gnus")
		  (geometry . "85x61+5+95")
		  (initial-state . 'nil))))
(load "gnus")
(gnus)

(message ".xinit.el done.")


The problem is that _sometimes_ the *scratch*-screen contains the
contents of the *Newsgroup*-buffer and the *Newsgroup*-screen contains
the gnus startup page. The strange thing is just that this behaviour
is *not predictable*. Sometimes on startup it happens and sometimes
not.

Any hints?

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Re: Strange behaviour with epoch and gnus

#1815

Author: Alan M. Carroll
Date: Wed, 31 Jul 1991 01:54

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In article <DRK.91Jul25100701@sol.sol>, drk@sol (Dirk Lutzebaeck) writes:
> The problem is that _sometimes_ the *scratch*-screen contains the
> contents of the *Newsgroup*-buffer and the *Newsgroup*-screen contains
> the gnus startup page.

If I had to guess, I would guess that during the GNUS startup, you
move the mouse into the first screen. This would generate a focus
event on that screen, and as soons as GNUS waits for input (which I
presume it does trying to connect to the server), it'll switch over to
the scratch screen. What I would recommend is embedding the GNUS
startup in

(ignore-event 'focus)
(gnus)
(resume-event 'focus)

-- 
Alan M. Carroll          <-- Another casualty of applied metaphysics
Epoch Development Team   
Urbana Il.               "I hate shopping with the reality-impaired" - Susan

Re: Strange behaviour with epoch and gnus

#1818

Author: Dirk Lutzebaeck
Date: Wed, 31 Jul 1991 08:32

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>>>>> On 31 Jul 91 01:54:13 GMT, carroll@cs.uiuc.edu (Alan M. Carroll) said:
  Alan> Nntp-Posting-Host: ash.cs.uiuc.edu

  Alan> In article <DRK.91Jul25100701@sol.sol>, drk@sol (Dirk Lutzebaeck) writes:
> The problem is that _sometimes_ the *scratch*-screen contains the
> contents of the *Newsgroup*-buffer and the *Newsgroup*-screen contains
> the gnus startup page.

  Alan> If I had to guess, I would guess that during the GNUS startup, you
  Alan> move the mouse into the first screen. This would generate a focus
  Alan> event on that screen, and as soons as GNUS waits for input (which I
  Alan> presume it does trying to connect to the server), it'll switch over to
  Alan> the scratch screen. What I would recommend is embedding the GNUS
  Alan> startup in

  Alan> (ignore-event 'focus)
  Alan> (gnus)
  Alan> (resume-event 'focus)

Excatly this is the solution. Thanks for your help.

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