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diff --git a/lisp/term/xterm.el b/lisp/term/xterm.el
index a60aa90255..fbc4c861bf 100644
--- a/lisp/term/xterm.el
+++ b/lisp/term/xterm.el
@@ -480,9 +480,14 @@
(send-string-to-terminal "\e[>0c")
;; The reply should be of the form: \e [ > NUMBER1 ; NUMBER2 ; NUMBER3 c
- (when (equal (read-event nil nil 0.1) ?\e)
- (when (equal (read-event nil nil 0.1) ?\[)
- (while (not (equal (setq chr (read-event nil nil 0.1)) ?c))
+ ;; If the timeout is completely removed for read-event, this
+ ;; might hang for terminals that pretend to be xterm, but don't
+ ;; respond to this escape sequence. RMS' opinion was to remove
+ ;; it completely. That might be right, but let's first try to
+ ;; see if by using a longer timeout we get rid of most issues.
+ (when (equal (read-event nil nil 2) ?\e)
+ (when (equal (read-event nil nil 2) ?\[)
+ (while (not (equal (setq chr (read-event nil nil 2)) ?c))
(setq str (concat str (string chr))))
(when (string-match ">0;\\([0-9]+\\);0" str)
;; NUMBER2 is the xterm version number, look for something