How to awake Emacs GUI after pressing Ctrl+z

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I'm using Emacs GUI in Gnome. After pressing Ctrl+z, the Emacs window is minimized. However, if I bring the window to the front, it doesn't respond to any key press or mouse event. I searched the web and only found how to bring it back from the command line.

How do I reactivate Emacs when using it in GUI mode?

score 31 · Accepted Answer · answered Oct 24 '11 at 17:45

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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.

answered Oct 24 '11 at 17:45

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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. – david Mar 31 '17 at 09:44
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Both 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

score 20 · Answer 2 · edited May 22 '13 at 12:29

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fg

or

fg %emacs

to get Emacs back.

edited May 22 '13 at 12:29

slhck

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answered May 22 '13 at 11:36

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score 8 · Answer 3 · answered Oct 24 '11 at 17:09

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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.

answered Oct 24 '11 at 17:09

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score 6 · Answer 4 · answered May 18 '15 at 18:21

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.

score 1 · Answer 5 · answered Apr 19 '20 at 00:09

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C-s resumes a GUI Emacs after C-z

answered Apr 19 '20 at 00:09

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score 0 · Answer 6 · answered Nov 29 '21 at 23:55

Try using a window resize command. I was using X11 forwarding to forward the Emacs GUI from a Linux server to my computer (Windows). Hitting C-z minimized the window, and when I brought it back up Emacs had frozen, but resizing it using the Windows key (e.g., Win + Left arrow) unfroze it and it started responding again.

How to awake Emacs GUI after pressing Ctrl+z

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