From: Po Lu via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" <bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
Cc: 7270@debbugs.gnu.org, Arne Babenhauserheide <arne_bab@yahoo.de>
Subject: bug#7270: 24.0.50; wish: emacs as WM: Being able to show arbitrary x-windows in emacs windows — as in ezbl, but universal.
Date: Tue, 10 May 2022 10:55:58 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <878rra2j0h.fsf@yahoo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87pmkmm8vc.fsf@gnus.org> (Lars Ingebrigtsen's message of "Tue, 10 May 2022 04:14:47 +0200")
Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:
> Emacs gained xwidget support a few years back, so I'm closing this bug
> report.
N.B. that the bug report wasn't about xwidgets, it was about displaying
X windows in Emacs buffers.
But there in lies the problem: what if two Emacs windows want to display
the same X window at the same time? Or across different displays? The
former could be possible with clever use of the composite extension (and
the recently added scale and coordinate transforms), while the latter is
impossible to implement efficiently.
The X input extension (which is now on by default) will also interfere
with windows created by programs that don't understand it if they try to
parent themselves into a window tree created by Emacs.
So we don't want to add support for such a feature.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-05-10 2:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-10-22 23:42 bug#7270: 24.0.50; wish: emacs as WM: Being able to show arbitrary x-windows in emacs windows — as in ezbl, but universal Arne Babenhauserheide
2022-05-10 2:14 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-05-10 2:55 ` Po Lu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors [this message]
2022-05-10 3:36 ` Phil Sainty
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