From: Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>
To: Juanma Barranquero <lekktu@gmail.com>, 17352@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#17352: .emacs.desktop has become unportable between GUI and TTY.
Date: Sun, 27 Apr 2014 09:02:33 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140427090233.GA3109@acm.acm> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140426182545.GB2944@acm.acm>
>> This lack of portability is a bug. Sharing a desktop file between GUI
>> and TTY sessions is the sort of thing Emacs should be able to do without
>> batting an eylid.
>At least in theory, saving&restoring the frameset already takes care
>of this. If it is failing, that's a bug.
>If you have a repeatable way to trigger this problem, please report it
>here so wen can work together to fix it.
With a throwaway userid, in a Linux tty (virtual terminal), start Emacs
and create a ~/.emacs containing the single line
(desktop-save-mode 1)
Evaluate this form with C-x C-e.
With .emacs in the current window, visit a new file in a new frame with
C-x 5 C-f asdf <RET>, put some random text into the new buffer and save
it with C-x C-s. Exit Emacs with C-x C-c.
With the same userid, in X Windows, open a terminal and start Emacs (with
no command line arguments). This produces the aforementioned error
messages:
Error (frameset): Font `tty' is not defined [2 times]
Warning (frameset): Attempt to delete the sole visible or iconified frame
. Only one frame is currently open.
Now close this Emacs session with C-x C-c, and attempt to start another
session on the tty. In the *scratch* buffer (apparently) appear the
following error messages:
(emacs:3488): GConf-WARNING **: Client failed to connect to the D-BUS daemon:
Unable to autolaunch a dbus-daemon without a $DISPLAY for X11
, the pair being repeated 9 times (for a total of twenty messages). Each
one started directly below where the previous one ended (as though a Unix
file was being displayed on a device expecting MS-DOS line terminators).
This Emacs is unusable, some control characters not being interpreted.
For example, on typing M-x, "^[x" gets displayed in the minibuffer
region, and the minibuffer is not active. C-x C-c works, however.
> J
--
Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-04-27 9:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-04-26 18:25 bug#17352: .emacs.desktop has become unportable between GUI and TTY Alan Mackenzie
2014-04-26 20:30 ` Juanma Barranquero
2014-04-27 9:02 ` Alan Mackenzie [this message]
2014-04-27 12:29 ` Juanma Barranquero
2014-04-27 13:53 ` Alan Mackenzie
2014-04-28 15:20 ` Juanma Barranquero
2014-04-30 18:28 ` Alan Mackenzie
2014-12-22 14:24 ` bug#17352: workaround Edmund Christian Herenz
2017-02-18 21:29 ` bug#17352: .emacs.desktop has become unportable between GUI and TTY Kaushal Modi
2017-09-02 13:03 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-09-22 14:56 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-09-29 17:06 ` Kaushal Modi
2017-09-29 18:12 ` Eli Zaretskii
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