trying to resize emacs window locks up desktop

[Michael Schwendt]

On Wed, 22 Aug 2007 11:13:02 -0600, Michal Jaegermann wrote:

> On Wed, Aug 22, 2007 at 10:16:20AM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> > 
> > apparently, this very problem goes waaaaaaaay back:
> > 
> > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=224611
> 
> As a matter of fact it is even much older than the report you
> reference here; simply defaults changed.  A workaround mentioned
> there, i.e. turning off "Assistive Technologies", still works
> to my knowledge and is the only current reliable cure.

Doesn't work for me. I have turned it off, but Emacs still locks
up reproducibly.

What I can confirm, though, is that when the desktop is locked up,
pressing NumLock once or twice resolves the deadlock.