From: "Jan D." <jan.h.d@swipnet.se>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: Christoph Ruegge <chrueg@gmail.com>,
"18375@debbugs.gnu.org" <18375@debbugs.gnu.org>
Subject: bug#18375: 24.4.50; Emacs hangs X session manager logout in certain cases
Date: Tue, 2 Sep 2014 22:56:02 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1B3078FA-936D-4F4A-9187-1D6732B03763@swipnet.se> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvlhq1evk3.fsf-monnier+emacsbugs@gnu.org>
Hi.
2 sep 2014 kl. 20:25 skrev Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>:
>> I investigated a bit and think the reason has something to do with the
>> way the SM communication is tied to the first opened terminal.
>
> Your analysis makes a lot of sense.
>
>> If I may add, the current behaviour is rather weird to begin with. The
>> SM integration's purpose is to cleanly shutdown Emacs on logout, so it
>> should be tied to the entire process and not to a particular terminal.
No. The reason is to have Emacs restarted when the user logs in again.
Logout is no problem, the X connection will go away.
> Indeed, we have a problem there. The `emacs --daemon' is not tied to
> a particular display, so it should not shutdown in response to such
> SM events. OTOH, many users use "emacs --daemon" only for their
> current session. So I can't think of any way to resolve this, short of
> making it a config var, like in your patch.
>
> Looking at your patch, I like the idea of exposing the session-start/end
> to Elisp, but I know too little about this area to really review
> your patch. Could someone else take a look at it?
Why not just skip all session manager interactions if run as a daemon?
You are technically not part of the session if the process can survive the session.
Jan D.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-09-02 20:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-08-31 11:56 bug#18375: 24.4.50; Emacs hangs X session manager logout in certain cases Christoph Ruegge
2014-09-01 11:40 ` Christoph Ruegge
2014-09-01 16:54 ` Christoph Ruegge
2014-09-02 18:25 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-09-02 20:56 ` Jan D. [this message]
2014-09-03 0:06 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-09-03 5:02 ` Jan Djärv
2014-09-03 9:53 ` Christoph Ruegge
2014-09-03 18:40 ` Jan Djärv
2014-09-03 18:51 ` Christoph Ruegge
2014-09-04 5:40 ` Jan Djärv
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