I'm using emacs gui in Gnome. After pressing ctrl+z, emacs window is minimized. However, if I bring the window to front, it doesn't respond any key press and mouse event. I searched the web only found bringing back it within the commandline. But how to reactive emace when using it in a GUI mode ??
If you press C-z by mistake then you can add this to your .emacs to make C-z do nothing:
(global-unset-key (kbd "C-z"))
I did that after pressing C-z many times by accident.
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resize the window (as posted below) to fix now! And then do this to make it permanent. Thanks from someone who has to constantly switch German and US keyboard layout. – ruquay Mar 31 '17 at 9:44
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2Both C-z and C-x C-z are typically bound to
(suspend-frame). If you unset C-z, you can still suspend with a C-x before C-z. (I consider this to be a feature but some may take that as inspiration to(global-unset-key (kbd "C-x C-z")).) – ericP Jul 10 '19 at 13:51
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fg
or
fg %emacs
to get Emacs back.
You may have to send the process a SIGCONT signal. You normally do this in the console by running kill -CONT $emacs_pid or killall -CONT emacs. If you insist on a GUI solution, you can try the task manager shipped with your distro.
Send it a CONT signal:
killall -CONT emacs
A WINCH signal also seems to work, so you can just resize the Emacs window.
Clicking on any menu items seems to work as well.
If you were running Emacs from a terminal, fg ("foreground") or %emacs would work.
C-s resumes a GUI Emacs after C-z
