From: "Arsen Arsenović" <arsen@aarsen.me>
To: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov@yandex.ru>
Cc: Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Qt can now survive Wayland compositor restarts
Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2023 23:17:17 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <86ilf82qh9.fsf@aarsen.me> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1499bc96-cecf-3c79-59e9-0c1db6a45aca@yandex.ru>
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Dmitry Gutov <dgutov@yandex.ru> writes:
> On 10/03/2023 18:31, Sean Whitton wrote:
>> Apropos the infamous Gtk bug, I saw this piece of news I thought I
>> should share:
>> <https://codereview.qt-project.org/c/qt/qtwayland/+/377104>.
>
> That might not give it an advantage over GTK still: over here, all applications
> survive Alt+F2 r RET in GNOME, including Emacs.
>
> What's (allegedly) a problem for Emacs, is the crash when the X server goes
> away. Not just the compositor.
That's a different kind of compositor. Wayland compositors are also
display servers.
GTK can definitely not survive that; the only source of instability I
see in Emacs is GTK calling _exit () because of a Wayland connection
timeout while in some blocking code (such as in smtpmail).
I was considering trying to do a separation of UI and Elisp threads as a
solution, but, seeing this happen makes me think a Qt port is easier.
I'd still like opinions on the former idea, though. It might be
worthwhile, but I am operating with little knowledge of that part of the
code-base, so I'm unsure if there's some deeper reason behind this not
being the case today.
Though, this still makes Emacs as a server not very resilient, sadly...
Have a lovely night.
--
Arsen Arsenović
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-03-10 22:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-03-10 16:31 Qt can now survive Wayland compositor restarts Sean Whitton
2023-03-10 21:46 ` Dmitry Gutov
2023-03-10 22:17 ` Arsen Arsenović [this message]
2023-03-11 2:06 ` Björn Bidar
2023-03-11 7:05 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-03-11 7:35 ` Po Lu
2023-03-11 10:58 ` Arsen Arsenović
2023-03-11 11:12 ` Po Lu
2023-03-11 11:23 ` Arsen Arsenović
2023-03-11 11:37 ` Po Lu
2023-03-11 12:25 ` Arsen Arsenović
2023-03-11 12:33 ` Po Lu
2023-03-11 12:36 ` Arsen Arsenović
2023-03-12 1:41 ` Madhu
2023-03-10 23:46 ` Po Lu
2023-03-10 23:48 ` Po Lu
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