Re: stumpwm, ediff in emacs

Hi Colin!

> I am posting my problem here in the hope that someone may have
> experienced something similar.
>
> In short, stumpwm hangs whenever I use ediff in emacs. I get this error
> message, which I'm afraid means nothing to me:
>
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> Caught! The value -s is not of type (UNSIGNED-BYTE 29) when binding
> XLIB::VALUE
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>
> The system hangs no matter the value of the variable
> "ediff-window-setup-function". I have no problems using ediff with other
> desktop managers. My stumpwm version is (SBCL 2.1.3).

I set ediff-window-setup-function to 'ediff-setup-windows-plain

In that case no extra window should be generated. No idea why this
should affect stumpwm somehow. It works for me since years.


> Thanks.
>
> Colin Baxter.


Hope this helps
  Stefan.