Re: Emacs starts with current screen contents in its display buffer

[Segundo Bob]

On 06/27/2014 05:02 PM, James Freer wrote:
> On Fri, 27 Jun 2014, Segundo Bob wrote:
>
> > My system:
> >
> >     GNU Emacs 24.3.1 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.10.7)
> > of 2014-03-07 on toyol, modified by Debian
> >
> >     Xubuntu32 14.04
> >
> > I installed Xubuntu32 14.04 on 2014-06-12.  I noticed this problem
> > almost immediately.  The screen contents belonging to other
> > applications is NOT in the emacs buffer that is saved to disk, but it
> > is displayed. This makes emacs unusable for me.
> >
> > I have spent several hours over these past weeks Googling for anyone
> > reporting a similar problem, but I have found no relevant information.
> > This probably means that my problem is not a widespread problem with
> > the Ubuntu release.
> >
> > Who is supposed to clear the "display buffers"?  Linux or Emacs?
> >
> > I will appreciate any help.
> > --
> > Segundo Bob
>
> I am running xubuntu and I am not getting that problem.
> This is what I have in my .emacs
> ;; Switch off start up message to have scatch buffer
> (setq inhibit-startup-message t)
> ;; Nothing in scratch buffer
> (setq initial-scratch-message nil)
>
> There may be better ways of achieving this but I have only recently
> started to use emacs.
>
> james

Thanks for the suggestion.  I already had

(setq inhibit-startup-message t)

I added:

(setq initial-scratch-message nil)

This had no effect.

Other ideas?  Anyone?

--
Segundo Bob
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