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> From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
> Cc: asjo@koldfront.dk, emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Tue, 09 Jun 2020 20:53:42 -0400
> 
>   > 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.
> 
> Did they say how a well-behaved program would do this job?

I believe that should be quite clear to someone who is familiar with
how GTK applications should be written.  (I'm not one of those
experts.)

> If there a way Emacs could do that?

I think someone is working on an Emacs configuration that will support
only GTK, and that configuration should then be able to do that.