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From: Po Lu via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" <bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: 63555-done@debbugs.gnu.org, rpluim@gmail.com, phill@thesusis.net
Subject: bug#63555: emacs 29 complains that it can't connect to the display
Date: Sun, 21 May 2023 08:45:06 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ttw61pil.fsf@yahoo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83ednbrwfp.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Sat, 20 May 2023 15:58:50 +0300")

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.

> 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.





  reply	other threads:[~2023-05-21  0:45 UTC|newest]

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 [this message]
2023-05-21  5:41                       ` Eli Zaretskii
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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