Often lose window decoration when restore from standby

[Jon TURNEY]

On 13/07/2009 20:35, KARR, DAVID (ATTCINW) wrote:
> I'm using Cygwin 1.5.25 on WinXPSP2, along with Cygwin-built GNU Emacs
> 23.0.92.1.
>
> I run startxwin.bat on system startup.  After it comes up, I run Emacs,
> and I get a good window with normal Windows-based window decorations.
> My Windows shortcut does this:
>
>     C:\cygwin\bin\rxvt.exe -geometry 1x1 -ls -cd c:\cygwin\home\dk068x -e
> /usr/bin/bash -l -c /usr/bin/emacs
>
> I often find that after I restore from Standby, I see an odd symptom, in
> that the Emacs window no longer has any window decorations.  The edge of
> the Emacs menu bar is the edge of the window.  If I kill the Emacs
> process and start it again from the shortcut, even that doesn't fix it.
> What fixes it is killing the Xwin process, rerunning startxwin.bat, and
> then rerunning Emacs.

Very interesting, but I'm afraid I can't reproduce this problem.

Does this only affect emacs? or all X windows?

This might be caused by the internal WM thread not being able to talk to the 
server anymore after a resume, but I would have thought that would cause the 
whole process to terminate...

Can I see a /var/log/Xwin.0.log, please?

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