From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com>
Cc: rpluim@gmail.com, phill@thesusis.net, 63555@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#63555: emacs 29 complains that it can't connect to the display
Date: Sun, 21 May 2023 08:41:01 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <835y8ms0lu.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87ttw61pil.fsf@yahoo.com> (message from Po Lu on Sun, 21 May 2023 08:45:06 +0800)
> From: Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com>
> Cc: rpluim@gmail.com, phill@thesusis.net, 63555-done@debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Sun, 21 May 2023 08:45:06 +0800
>
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>
> > Too bad. I added some verbiage to this effect in NEWS, and I'm
> > closing this bug.
> >
> > (With all these disadvantages, I wonder why the PGTK build was
> > considered such a useful addition to Emacs...)
>
> To be fair, it solves the problem of running Emacs under Wayland
> reasonably well.
For some value of "reasonably well". It's the only configuration for
which we explicitly warn users that very bad things could happen
unless they do so-and-so.
> > Btw, the Emacs user manual says WAYLAND_DISPLAY is the variable used
> > by PGTK, which you seem to say is inaccurate?
>
> WAYLAND_DISPLAY is one of the variables, but there are others too,
> depending on which GDK backends are in use (Broadway, Cygwin, Quartz,
> etc.) There may also be new GDK backends in the future.
>
> The user manual should be fixed.
Please do this ASAP. Or tell me what should be written there, and
then I will do it.
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Thread overview: 40+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-05-17 13:51 bug#63555: emacs 29 complains that it can't connect to the display Phillip Susi
2023-05-17 14:09 ` Phillip Susi
2023-05-19 6:11 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-05-19 7:22 ` Po Lu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-05-19 13:26 ` Robert Pluim
2023-05-19 14:52 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-05-19 15:44 ` Robert Pluim
2023-05-20 1:40 ` Po Lu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-05-20 5:51 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-05-20 6:33 ` Po Lu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-05-20 8:16 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-05-20 8:28 ` Po Lu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-05-20 12:58 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-05-21 0:45 ` Po Lu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-05-21 5:41 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2023-05-21 6:32 ` Po Lu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-05-21 11:16 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-05-20 1:38 ` Po Lu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
[not found] ` <handler.63555.D63555.168458752424255.notifdone@debbugs.gnu.org>
2023-05-20 17:35 ` bug#63555: closed (Re: bug#63555: emacs 29 complains that it can't connect to the display) Phillip Susi
2023-05-22 7:29 ` Robert Pluim
2023-05-22 9:26 ` Po Lu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-05-22 10:05 ` Robert Pluim
2023-05-22 11:15 ` Po Lu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-05-22 11:28 ` Robert Pluim
2023-05-22 12:50 ` Po Lu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-05-22 13:37 ` Phillip Susi
2023-05-23 0:31 ` Po Lu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-05-23 14:59 ` Phillip Susi
2023-05-24 0:20 ` Po Lu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-05-25 15:38 ` Phillip Susi
2023-05-26 1:00 ` Po Lu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-05-26 8:38 ` Robert Pluim
2023-05-26 15:54 ` Phillip Susi
2023-05-27 0:48 ` Po Lu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-05-30 17:31 ` Phillip Susi
2023-05-31 1:19 ` Po Lu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-05-22 16:44 ` Phillip Susi
2023-05-22 17:05 ` Robert Pluim
2023-05-23 14:58 ` Phillip Susi
2023-06-08 6:02 ` Daan Ro
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