Using several window systems

Using several window systems

[Peder Refsnes]

Hi.

On my system, a mac, I have compiled emacs to use the X window manager. I use a tilling manager called AwesomeWM to handle the window placement which I find to be better than floating cocoa windows, most of the time. 

It would be nice if I was able to start an emacsclient that hooks into the running server and makes a cocoa frame. Use case would be if I'm having a quick look at a README file or the like, but also be able to reach the buffers in my "main" emacs instance. So what I'm basically asking is: Is it's possible to have two different window systems connect to an emacs server? 

Peder

Re: Using several window systems

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 14.11.2009 um 08:51 schrieb Peder Refsnes:

> So what I'm basically asking is: Is it's possible to have two  
> different window systems connect to an emacs server?

This is default behaviour. But you'll only get either an NS or an X11  
frame, depending on whether the Emacs server is NS or X11 based. No  
mix-up!

--
Greetings

   Pete

Theory and practice are the same, in theory, but, in practice, they  
are different.

Re: Using several window systems

[Peder Refsnes]

Ok.

Might this be implemented at some point? Or does the technical issues out weight the usefulness of such a feature? Can't picture there being allot of demand for such a feature.

Peder 

On Nov 15, 2009, at 2:19 AM, Peter Dyballa wrote:

> 
> Am 14.11.2009 um 08:51 schrieb Peder Refsnes:
> 
>> So what I'm basically asking is: Is it's possible to have two different window systems connect to an emacs server?
> 
> This is default behaviour. But you'll only get either an NS or an X11 frame, depending on whether the Emacs server is NS or X11 based. No mix-up!
> 
> --
> Greetings
> 
>  Pete
> 
> Theory and practice are the same, in theory, but, in practice, they are different.
> 

Re: Using several window systems

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 15.11.2009 um 11:41 schrieb Peder Refsnes:

> Might this be implemented at some point?


It would be a bit difficult... (How difficult is for you to explain  
why you need this feature and can't live with two or three GNU Emacs  
running on your system? Is your system a restricted mobile phone or  
such?)

You need food and water to work, GNU Emacs needs library functions to  
work. You can live from dead animals and dead plants, no way for you  
to live from solar energy, electricity, ionising radiation, mineral  
oil and natural gas (like a bivalent car), methane, hydrogen, sulfur  
compounds.

GNU Emacs can live from GNOME/GTK, X11/Xaw3d, GNUStep/OPENSTEP,  
"Aqua," "Carbon," AppKit, Motif... It should work to integrate an  
abstraction layer to help decide which library function of the same  
API name, which Look And Feel is to be used. And modern computers  
have large disks and vast memory, a 1 GB GNU Emacs should work in  
such an environment.


It's also possible that in a world of multi-core CPUs once a GNU  
Emacs service will run on a dedicated core offering this or that Look  
And Feel.

--
Greetings

   Pete

How many Microsoft engineers does it take to screw in a light-bulb?
None.
They just redefine "dark" as the new standard.

Re: Using several window systems

[Stefan Monnier]

>> So what I'm basically asking is: Is it's possible to have two different
>> window systems connect to an emacs server?
> This is default behaviour. But you'll only get either an NS or an X11 frame,
> depending on whether the Emacs server is NS or X11 based. No  mix-up!

BTW, there is no fundamental reason why Emacs can't have both X11 and
an NS (or w32) frames simultaneously opened.  If someone's interested in
working on such a feature, he's welcome to try and help,


        Stefan