I have the same problem on my Maverick box, both local or sshing in from a Karmic box.
The workaround in comment #3 solves the problem for me. Thank you, Anders, -- emacs fails to start: X protocol error https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/585196 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to gtk+2.0 in ubuntu. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs