Re: getting "unlockFocus called too many times"

[David Reitter]

John,

> when attempting to launch Aquamacs from the command line, I get the following error.

I’m aware of the “unlockFocus” warning and have been trying to trace it down. Thanks.

> Files I'm attempting to open also never appear in a buffer, but depending on how I exit Aquamacs, may get over-written so they're empty when I re-open them from the finder.
>
> > /Applications/Aquamacs/Aquamacs.app/Contents/MacOS/Aquamacs ~/Desktop/file.txt

That is another problem, which I have NOT seen before.

What happens when you open Aquamacs with the -q parameter?

open -n /Application/Aquamacs/Aquamacs.app/Contents/MacOS/Aquamacs --args -q ~/Desktop/file.txt

(Note that “open” is a better way to start up Aquamacs.)

Best,
David



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[David Reitter]

On Nov 17, 2015, at 7:04 AM, David Reitter <david....@gmail.com> wrote:

> open -n /Application/Aquamacs/Aquamacs.app/Contents/MacOS/Aquamacs --args -q ~/Desktop/file.txt

Correction, this should be as follows:

open -n /Application/Aquamacs/Aquamacs.app --args -q ~/Desktop/file.txt

[David Reitter]

On Nov 16, 2015, at 12:30 PM, John Hearn <jhe...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I'm not sure what triggered this problem, as I don't recall installing any updates or new software, but for the past few days, when attempting to launch Aquamacs from the command line, I get the following error. Files I'm attempting to open also never appear in a buffer, but depending on how I exit Aquamacs, may get over-written so they're empty when I re-open them from the finder.

Thank you. This bug was fixed today.

- David

[John Hearn]

That's great. Will there be a stable release with the bug fix soon, or should I download a nightly?

[David Reitter]

Download the nightly build, for now.  And btw, the big that was fixed was the one regarding opening files. 

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[John Hearn]

Oh, so the nightly will still give the "unlockFocus" bug behavior? Is there a temporary fix that will make launching from the command line functional again?

BTW, I've been using the following script to launch Aquamacs. I don't recall where I originally found it.

https://gist.github.com/JohnTheBastard/334166fde4dd26c52b4a

[David Reitter]

You should not launch the binary directly (MacOS/Aquamacs), but with

open -a Aquamacs file.txt

or with the command line tool that is installed with Aquamacs. I don’t recall whether that warning occurs. It is not a hard error in any case. (I’m sorry, but I can’t debug third-party tools…)

No other temporary fix.

- David

[John Hearn]

Okay, thanks for the quick replies.

[David Reitter]

This problem has been addressed. Aquamacs should no longer show this message. Thanks for the report.

- David

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