emacs24 losing window frame on startup

Question

I just updated Fedora 18 on my Dell laptop.

Now when I start emacs in X, it first appears normal, but once I mouse over the window, it suddenly loses all the window manager frame stuff, and this also loses the emacs echo area at the bottom.

Startup image:

After mouse over:

I can move around the window by clicking on the top area to the right of the "File Edit options..." menu area, but no resize or close or forward functionality.

When I do meta-anything, the echo area appears to be below what is displayed, so it is rather difficult to do much without this.

Nothing seems to bring back the window frame stuff.

I am running emacs 24.2.1 (x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.6.4) of 2013-07-14 on buildvm-05.phx2.fedoraproject.org KDE 4.10.5

$ uname -a Linux my-machine 3.10.10-100.fc18.x86_64 #1 SMP Thu Aug 29 20:13:09 UTC 2013 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

Answer 1

I assume you are starting Emacs with no init file, ie, emacs -Q , right? If so, then this is a bug. Please report it in that case: Mx report-emacs-bug .

If you see the problem not with emacs -Q but only with your startup file, then find out which part of your init file introduces the problem. To do that, bisect the file recursively (comment out 1/2, then 1/4, then 1/8,...). You can use command comment-region to comment or (plain Cu ) uncomment large sections of the buffer.