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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Lars Brinkhoff <lars@nocrew.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: (error "Window system frame should be used")
Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2017 11:09:01 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <83zifa9o82.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <86r30mnqzd.fsf@molnjunk.nocrew.org> (message from Lars Brinkhoff on Fri, 21 Apr 2017 09:45:42 +0200)

> From: Lars Brinkhoff <lars@nocrew.org>
> Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2017 09:45:42 +0200
> 
> I'm noting that "emacs -nw" can make a graphical frame, but "emacs
> -batch" can not.

"emacs -nw" can _display_ a GUI frame.  In batch sessions, we don't
display anything, because it's a non-interactive invocation.  Batch
sessions have a frame of a special type, which is neither a TTY frame
nor a GUI frame.



  reply	other threads:[~2017-04-21  8:09 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
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 [this message]
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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