From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ulrich Mueller Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Emacs as a desktop environment Date: Thu, 26 May 2011 07:45:24 +0200 Message-ID: <19933.59636.382811.985972@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de> References: <87aaebbndz.fsf@lifelogs.com> <09EEF7C6-A715-412D-ABE7-022681CD2E85@raeburn.org> <868vtufuo0.fsf@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1306388751 14269 80.91.229.12 (26 May 2011 05:45:51 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 26 May 2011 05:45:51 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Evans Winner , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Ken Raeburn Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu May 26 07:45:46 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QPTOD-0004YW-Sf for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 26 May 2011 07:45:46 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:53809 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QPTOD-0006cv-GB for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 26 May 2011 01:45:45 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:44088) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QPTOA-0006cd-Di for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 26 May 2011 01:45:43 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QPTO9-000691-Et for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 26 May 2011 01:45:42 -0400 Original-Received: from a1iwww1.kph.uni-mainz.de ([134.93.134.1]:35100) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QPTO9-00068k-3M for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 26 May 2011 01:45:41 -0400 Original-Received: from a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de (a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de [134.93.134.92]) by a1iwww1.kph.uni-mainz.de (8.14.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id p4Q5jOVM009037; Thu, 26 May 2011 07:45:24 +0200 Original-Received: from a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de (8.14.4/8.14.2) with ESMTP id p4Q5jOLu031030; Thu, 26 May 2011 07:45:24 +0200 Original-Received: (from ulm@localhost) by a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de (8.14.4/8.14.4/Submit) id p4Q5jOHk031029; Thu, 26 May 2011 07:45:24 +0200 In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: VM 8.1.1 under 23.3.1 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 134.93.134.1 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:139724 Archived-At: >>>>> On Wed, 25 May 2011, Ken Raeburn wrote: > The GTK code is, apparently, rather poor at supporting multiple > displays. It'll work some of the time, but sometimes -- I forget; > maybe when a display goes away unexpectedly -- it'll break. If the connection is forcibly closed (e.g. when the X server is terminated) then Emacs will crash. It's a bug in GTK+ that is open since 2002: There are several bugs related to this in the Emacs bug tracker too, for example . > I got the impression (that other people had gotten the impression) > that it wasn't an issue that was getting much attention from the GTK > folks. There hasn't been much activity on the GTK+ bug in the last 5 years. I really wonder why they aren't interested in fixing this. >> How would you recommend compiling? > I use "--with-x-toolkit=lucid", and haven't had any problems. At Gentoo there were already discussions if we should change the default toolkit of the Emacs package from GTK+ to Lucid, because of this bug. Ulrich