From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: sam.brightman@gmail.com
Cc: 43886@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#43886: 28.0.50; daemon segfaults when loading theme as second emacsclient connects
Date: Sat, 10 Oct 2020 11:17:10 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <838sce5wc9.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83d01q5ywn.fsf@gnu.org> (message from Eli Zaretskii on Sat, 10 Oct 2020 10:21:44 +0300)
> Date: Sat, 10 Oct 2020 10:21:44 +0300
> From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
> Cc: 43886@debbugs.gnu.org
>
> > However - even removing that hook - it is now impossible to
> > load a theme when a client is suspended (which is basically always for
> > me - I'll have half a dozen or more clients open at any time, one of
> > them will be suspended).
>
> It is indeed impossible/unsafe to load a theme when some frame is
> suspended, because suspending a frame makes it unable to handle the
> change of the faces. I don't see any way around that, because
> skipping such a frame when a theme is enabled would mean that frame's
> faces are not recalculated to obey the theme, which is a subtler and
> nastier bug, IMO.
>
> You will have to unsuspend the frames when you load a theme.
Upon further thought, I found a simpler, nicer solution for this
conundrum, and pushed it to the emacs-27 branch.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-10-10 8:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-10-09 15:58 bug#43886: 28.0.50; daemon segfaults when loading theme as second emacsclient connects Sam Brightman
2020-10-09 19:32 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-10-10 7:09 ` Sam Brightman
2020-10-10 7:21 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-10-10 8:17 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2020-10-10 13:27 ` Sam Brightman
2020-10-10 13:35 ` Eli Zaretskii
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