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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: (error "Window system frame should be used")
Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2017 06:47:09 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <838tmubewy.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3inly3d8l.fsf@stories> (message from Lars Ingebrigtsen on Fri,  21 Apr 2017 00:50:34 +0200)

> From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
> Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2017 00:50:34 +0200
> 
> Hm.  Is there no way to create a headless Emacs that has window-system
> frames?

No.  To do that, Emacs has to use GUI APIs, which need a window-system
window (a.k.a. "frame").

> Or should I just stick the tests in test/manual?

I think that's the only practical choice, yes.



  parent reply	other threads:[~2017-04-21  3:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-04-20 21:34 (error "Window system frame should be used") Lars Ingebrigtsen
2017-04-20 21:49 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2017-04-20 22:50   ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2017-04-20 23:22     ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2017-04-21  3:47     ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2017-04-21 13:22       ` Stefan Monnier
2017-04-21 13:34         ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-04-21  5:28     ` Lars Brinkhoff
2017-04-21  7:45       ` Lars Brinkhoff
2017-04-21  8:09         ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-04-21  8:44           ` Lars Brinkhoff
2017-04-21 10:51             ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-04-21 17:18       ` Lars Ingebrigtsen

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