From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.ciao.gmane.io!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: long-standing GTK bug Date: Tue, 09 Jun 2020 17:32:58 +0300 Message-ID: <83a71c71id.fsf@gnu.org> References: <83zhbcg6s4.fsf@gnu.org> <87r1wng2ki.fsf@linaro.org> <83o8rrenn1.fsf@gnu.org> <87blnr6uck.fsf@tullinup.koldfront.dk> <87wo5kumkn.fsf_-_@tullinup.koldfront.dk> <86ftc5hc8j.fsf@gmail.com> <87d079io10.fsf@tullinup.koldfront.dk> <87ftbyokll.fsf@tullinup.koldfront.dk> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="ciao.gmane.io:159.69.161.202"; logging-data="75542"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: asjo@koldfront.dk, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: rms@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Tue Jun 09 16:36:46 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1jifMs-000JZW-23 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 09 Jun 2020 16:36:46 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:51770 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jifMr-0001RR-32 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 09 Jun 2020 10:36:45 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:57294) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jifJd-0006LX-QN for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 09 Jun 2020 10:33:25 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:42488) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jifJc-0002rp-8g; Tue, 09 Jun 2020 10:33:24 -0400 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=1150 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1jifJU-0000xk-EO; Tue, 09 Jun 2020 10:33:16 -0400 In-Reply-To: (message from Richard Stallman on Mon, 08 Jun 2020 22:37:56 -0400) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:252062 Archived-At: > From: Richard Stallman > Date: Mon, 08 Jun 2020 22:37:56 -0400 > Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org > > > > If you remove the workaround in frame.c and remove the call to > > > emacs_abort() when using GTK in x_connection_closed() in xterm.c, and > > > the connection to a display is terminated while Emacs has a window on > > > that display, you'll still get an endless stream of warnings from GLib, > > > i.e. "the GTK bug". > > > I have been looking further into it, and I think I now understand what > > happens. > > Ideally the GTK developers would fix this. Apparently a long time has > gone by and they have not done so. I suppose there is a reason why. > Does anyone know what it is? AFAIU, they concluded that Emacs doesn't use GTK as a well-behaving GTK application should, and so they decided not to fix this problem.