Re: (error "Window system frame should be used")

[Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>]

Lars Brinkhoff <lars@nocrew.org> writes:

> Lars Ingebrigtsen wrote:
>> Hm.  Is there no way to create a headless Emacs that has window-system
>> frames?  It seems kinda unlikely that we don't have a way to test these
>> things?
>
> I'm wildly guessing it shouldn't be impossible to create a
> stub/shim/mock window system that's available in batch mode.
>
> If someone were interested in looking into this, how would they
> reproduce your error?

Let's see...  I think this is a pretty minimal test case:

[larsi@stories ~]$ emacs -batch --eval "(progn (require 'svg) (image-size (svg-image (svg-create 50 50))))"
Window system frame should be used

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