From: Alex Hutcheson <alexhutcheson@google.com>
To: 25547@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#25547: 25.1.91; emacsclient -c creates frames on the wrong display
Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2017 13:09:46 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <u49xmved1ymt.fsf@alexhutcheson1.nyc.corp.google.com> (raw)
When an emacsclient running in a terminal is connected to an Emacs
instance running in a graphical environment, running `emacsclient -c'
from a comint buffer (such as M-x shell) creates a frame in the
graphical environment, where it may be inaccessible to the user who
ran the command.
To reproduce:
1. Run `emacs --daemon' on a system with a graphical display.
2. Login to the system using a terminal with no graphical display. You
could do this by switching to another virtual terminal (Ctrl-Alt-F1
works on Ubuntu), or SSH in from another machine.
3. Run `emacsclient -c' or `emacsclient -t' in the terminal to connect
to the running Emacs instance.
4. Inside Emacs, run M-x shell.
5. In the M-x shell buffer, run `emacsclient -c'.
Ideal behavior: emacsclient creates a frame on the current terminal.
Actual behavior: emacsclient creates a graphical frame in the
environment in which it was launched, which is inaccessible from the
terminal.
Possible questions:
Q : Why would you want to run emacsclient from within M-x shell? Why
not just do whatever you want to do in the frame you already have
open?
A : Normally the user isn't launching emacsclient directly. Instead,
a script might be launching emacsclient as part of a larger
workflow.
Q : Why not just launch emacsclient without the '-c' option?
A : Without the -c flag, emacsclient works well to edit a file or
series of files, but it doesn't support more complicated tasks.
For example, a script might want to launch an ediff session, and
wait until the ediff session exits. The easiest way to do this is
to use `emacsclient -c' and wait for the connection to be closed.
In GNU Emacs 25.1.91.1 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, X toolkit, Xaw3d scroll bars),
modified by Debian
Windowing system distributor 'The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.11501000
System Description: Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
Configured using:
'configure --build x86_64-linux-gnu --build x86_64-linux-gnu
--prefix=/usr --sharedstatedir=/var/lib --libexecdir=/usr/lib
--localstatedir=/var/lib --infodir=/usr/share/info
--mandir=/usr/share/man --with-pop=yes
--enable-locallisppath=/etc/google-emacs:/etc/emacs:/usr/local/share/emacs/25.1.91+gg1+2/site-lisp:/usr/local/share/emacs/site-lisp:/usr/share/emacs/25.1.91+gg1+2/site-lisp:/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp
--with-crt-dir=/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu --disable-build-details
--disable-silent-rules --with-modules GOOGLE_VERSION=25.1.91+gg1+2
--with-x=yes --with-x-toolkit=lucid --with-toolkit-scroll-bars
--without-gconf --without-gsettings build_alias=x86_64-linux-gnu
'CFLAGS=-g -O2 -fstack-protector --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -Wformat
-Werror=format-security -Wall' 'LDFLAGS=-Wl,-Bsymbolic-functions
-Wl,-z,relro -Wl,-fuse-ld=gold,--export-dynamic-symbol=__google_auxv'
'CPPFLAGS=-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -DGOOGLE_EMACS_DEFINE_AUXV''
Configured features:
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TOOLKIT_SCROLL_BARS LUCID X11 MODULES
Important settings:
value of $LANG: en_US.UTF-8
value of $XMODIFIERS: @im=ibus
locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix
Major mode: Message
Minor modes in effect:
mml-mode: t
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electric-indent-mode: t
mouse-wheel-mode: t
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global-font-lock-mode: t
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sha1 md5 base64 format env code-pages mule custom widget
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font-render-setting x-toolkit x multi-tty make-network-process emacs)
Memory information:
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(miscs 40 211 363)
(strings 32 15788 3029)
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(vectors 16 12877)
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next reply other threads:[~2017-01-26 18:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-01-26 18:09 Alex Hutcheson [this message]
2020-11-02 22:37 ` bug#25547: 25.1.91; emacsclient -c creates frames on the wrong display Stefan Monnier
[not found] ` <CAK1djOorpaeoMU-gtd+hQnWWK8tOaER6OPYgukYrn=V1cDh+aQ@mail.gmail.com>
[not found] ` <jwvsg9rtghs.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org>
2020-11-03 18:36 ` Eliza Velasquez via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2020-11-05 2:00 ` Eliza Velasquez via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2020-11-05 4:44 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-11-05 23:41 ` Eliza Velasquez via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2020-11-06 0:55 ` Eliza Velasquez via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2020-11-06 5:39 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-11-06 19:14 ` Eliza Velasquez via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2020-11-06 22:07 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-11-07 8:04 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-11-10 0:14 ` Eliza Velasquez via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2020-11-11 3:14 ` Stefan Monnier
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