From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.ciao.gmane.io!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: long-standing GTK bug Date: Mon, 08 Jun 2020 22:37:56 -0400 Message-ID: References: <83zhbcg6s4.fsf@gnu.org> <87r1wng2ki.fsf@linaro.org> <83o8rrenn1.fsf@gnu.org> <87blnr6uck.fsf@tullinup.koldfront.dk> <87wo5kumkn.fsf_-_@tullinup.koldfront.dk> <86ftc5hc8j.fsf@gmail.com> <87d079io10.fsf@tullinup.koldfront.dk> <87ftbyokll.fsf@tullinup.koldfront.dk> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="ciao.gmane.io:159.69.161.202"; logging-data="23547"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Adam =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sj=C3=B8gren?= Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Tue Jun 09 04:38:32 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1jiU9o-00062Y-L8 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 09 Jun 2020 04:38:32 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:58610 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jiU9n-0000OM-MK for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 08 Jun 2020 22:38:31 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:44336) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jiU9H-0008PW-2o for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 08 Jun 2020 22:37:59 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:33321) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jiU9F-0000lo-7X; Mon, 08 Jun 2020 22:37:57 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1jiU9E-0001Sr-55; Mon, 08 Jun 2020 22:37:56 -0400 In-Reply-To: <87ftbyokll.fsf@tullinup.koldfront.dk> (emacs-devel@gnu.org) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:252059 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] Please forgive me for taking so long to respond. I am backlogged 500 messages I have not yet seen. I just saw your message today. > > If you remove the workaround in frame.c and remove the call to > > emacs_abort() when using GTK in x_connection_closed() in xterm.c, and > > the connection to a display is terminated while Emacs has a window on > > that display, you'll still get an endless stream of warnings from GLib, > > i.e. "the GTK bug". > I have been looking further into it, and I think I now understand what > happens. Ideally the GTK developers would fix this. Apparently a long time has gone by and they have not done so. I suppose there is a reason why. Does anyone know what it is? -- Dr Richard Stallman Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)