From: Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com>
To: David De La Harpe Golden <david@harpegolden.net>
Cc: Juanma Barranquero <lekktu@gmail.com>,
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>,
emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: emacs daemon on win32?
Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2008 19:48:10 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87tzawp9hh.fsf@cyd.mit.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <49079DAD.9040404@harpegolden.net> (David De La Harpe Golden's message of "Tue, 28 Oct 2008 23:18:05 +0000")
David De La Harpe Golden <david@harpegolden.net> writes:
>> The easiest approach is to have a separate "emacs-systray" application
>> that (i) starts Emacs in daemon mode and (ii) adds a systray icon which
>> runs emacsclient when clicked. "Minimizing to systray" is just the same
>> as closing the frame, which is already handled properly in daemon mode.
>>
>> (Same approach works for a Gnome or KDE applet.)
>
> Uhm. That sounds kind of complicated to me. Systray support shouldn't
> really be confused with daemon mode. Daemon == detached from the
> process group, won't quit upon user logout, AFAIK.
The systray application could simply do something like
emacsclient --eval "(kill-emacs)"
on logout.
The advantage of this is that it can be implemented rather easily. Not
that I'm going to spend time on this, but I suspect it won't take more
than a day to hack up a usable Gnome applet, which won't need to do
anything but issue a handful of different shell commands.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-10-28 23:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-10-12 5:15 emacs daemon on win32? dhruva
2008-10-12 19:03 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-10-28 12:14 ` Juanma Barranquero
2008-10-28 14:39 ` jasonr
2008-10-28 15:13 ` Juanma Barranquero
2008-10-28 16:33 ` David De La Harpe Golden
2008-10-28 16:46 ` David De La Harpe Golden
2008-10-28 17:07 ` Juanma Barranquero
2008-10-28 18:19 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-10-28 18:26 ` Lennart Borgman
2008-10-28 19:31 ` Chong Yidong
2008-10-28 20:12 ` Juanma Barranquero
2008-10-28 20:21 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-10-28 23:18 ` David De La Harpe Golden
2008-10-28 23:48 ` Chong Yidong [this message]
2008-10-28 20:09 ` Juanma Barranquero
2008-10-28 18:18 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-10-28 20:05 ` Juanma Barranquero
2008-10-28 20:22 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-10-28 21:12 ` mail
2008-10-29 4:18 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-10-28 21:27 ` Juanma Barranquero
2008-10-29 4:21 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-10-29 8:22 ` Juanma Barranquero
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