From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ken Raeburn Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Emacs as a desktop environment Date: Wed, 25 May 2011 20:18:11 -0400 Message-ID: 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 (Apple Message framework v1084) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1306369103 21742 80.91.229.12 (26 May 2011 00:18:23 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 26 May 2011 00:18:23 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Evans Winner Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu May 26 02:18:18 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 1QPOHJ-0002Wg-T1 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 26 May 2011 02:18:18 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:42631 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QPOHJ-0004Nb-3w for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 25 May 2011 20:18:17 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:54589) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QPOHG-0004NN-Q7 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 25 May 2011 20:18:15 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QPOHG-0003Lb-4N for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 25 May 2011 20:18:14 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-qy0-f169.google.com ([209.85.216.169]:44907) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QPOHF-0003LU-Vt for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 25 May 2011 20:18:14 -0400 Original-Received: by qyk2 with SMTP id 2so2928436qyk.0 for ; Wed, 25 May 2011 17:18:13 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.229.45.3 with SMTP id c3mr113815qcf.249.1306369093357; Wed, 25 May 2011 17:18:13 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from [10.1.12.6] (vpn.permabit.com [204.246.225.2]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id e28sm129933qck.42.2011.05.25.17.18.12 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Wed, 25 May 2011 17:18:13 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <868vtufuo0.fsf@gmail.com> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1084) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-Received-From: 209.85.216.169 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:139717 Archived-At: On May 25, 2011, at 15:26, Evans Winner wrote: > ,------ Ken Raeburn wrote ------ > | emacsclient and daemon mode (but don't build for gtk!) >=20 > I use this functionality every day (in fact, I'm writing > this on a tunneled Emacs right now). I am wondering why you > say not to compile with GTK? 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. 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. > How would you > recommend compiling? I use "--with-x-toolkit=3Dlucid", and haven't had any problems. Ken=