Re: Finishing ssh session with "emacsclient -t" kills emacs daemon

[Lluís <xscript@gmx.net>]

Dan Nicolaescu writes:

> Lluís <xscript@gmx.net> writes:
>> I'd like to keep a daemon running on a server:
>> 
>> ssh server "nohup emacs --daemon"

> Is this emacs compiled with the Gtk+ toolkit? 

Yes it is.


>> Then, be able to connect to it from different machines using the graphical
>> frontend:
>> 
>> ssh -X server "nohup emacsclient -c"
>> 
>> The problem is that the ssh gets "stuck" after exiting emacs, and whenever I C-c
>> it, the daemon just dies. The same happens if I do this "manually":
>> 
>> ssh -X server
>> emacsclient -c
>> exit
>> 
>> The ssh client gets stuck on the exit, and using C-c finishes the ssh session
>> together with the emacs daemon. If instead I use the terminal frontend,
>> everything works fine:
>> 
>> ssh -X server
>> emacsclient -t
>> exit
>> 
>> but that's not what I want.
>> 
>> As a side note, using this:
>> 
>> ssh server "nohup emacsclient -c"
>> 
>> results in the error "emacsclient: could not get terminal name".
>> 
>> 
>> Is there any way around the first problem?

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