Comment # 3 on bug 1198616 from Martin Jambor

(In reply to Dr. Werner Fink from comment #1)
> Are you using emacs as a server? 

No, I run each "invocation" as a separate process.

> Please provide your locale

  mjambor@virgil:~$ locale
  LANG=C
  LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8
  LC_NUMERIC="C"
  LC_TIME="C"
  LC_COLLATE="C"
  LC_MONETARY="C"
  LC_MESSAGES="C"
  LC_PAPER="C"
  LC_NAME="C"
  LC_ADDRESS="C"
  LC_TELEPHONE="C"
  LC_MEASUREMENT="C"
  LC_IDENTIFICATION="C"
  LC_ALL=

> as well as your used display (session) manager.

The problem happens on both my desktop where I use LightDM and on my
notebook where I use XDM.  My Window Manager on both is Fluxbox.