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25.1; x-win-suspend-error: Cannot suspend Emacs while running under X

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Message #16 received at 27901 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Francesco Potortì <Potorti <at> isti.cnr.it>
Cc: 27901 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#27901: 25.1; x-win-suspend-error: Cannot suspend Emacs while
 running under X
Date: Sat, 05 Aug 2017 12:38:50 +0300

> Date: Sat, 05 Aug 2017 11:13:15 +0200
> From: Francesco Potortì <Potorti <at> isti.cnr.it>
> Cc: 27901-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> 
> >> It would also be nice if the message explained how to close the
> >> graphical frame from the text frame.  I tried
> >>  (delete-frame (next-frame))
> >> from the text frame but the only result was that the text frame became
> >> unusable (not responding to commands any more).
> >
> >I encourage people to propose simple ways of doing that.
> 
> Isn't the above behaviour a bug on its own?  The only way out I found
> was to close Emacs from the graphical frame.

It could be a bug, but if so, it's a separate bug.

And frankly, I don't understand what is the bug here: doing what you
did is not the usual way of deleting all frames but the current one.
I'd try "C-x 5 1" from the TTY frame first.

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