On Wed, Nov 30, 2022 at 7:54 PM Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com> wrote:

> Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:
>
> > What I read here is "we should move each GUI event loop into its own
> > thread" :-)
>
> That's not ok, as Xlib (used by both those toolkits, and also Emacs
> itself) is not thread safe.
>
> Even though it can be thread safe at first glance, having multiple
> threads work at the same time will mess up request serial tracking, and
> `x_error_catcher' and friends will stop working.
>

I'm not up to doing the work myself, and obviously I'm not asking anyone
else to do so, but I wonder if anyone has looked at moving emacs from Xlib
to XCB?

~Chad