From: Dan Nicolaescu <dann@gnu.org>
To: Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com>
Cc: Neal Becker <ndbecker2@gmail.com>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: daemon mode breakage
Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2010 16:19:27 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <yxqbp6o8vn4.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8762wwltu8.fsf@stupidchicken.com> (Chong Yidong's message of "Wed\, 20 Oct 2010 12\:19\:59 -0400")
Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com> writes:
> Dan Nicolaescu <dann@gnu.org> writes:
>
>>> But if the connection is rudely dropped, then when I attempt to re-connect
>>> I get a blank window.
>>
>> This is a bug in Gtk+.
>> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=85715. (emacs/etc/PROBLEMS
>> has a note about this too).
>> If you intend to use the daemon mode, it's better to compile emacs
>> using the lucid toolkit.
>> It doesn't look like the Gtk+ bug will ever be fixed so...
>
> Is there any way for us to detect when this happens?
Don't know.
> If so, we could make Emacs print an error message with the
> bugzilla.gnome.org bug url.
We should print a warning when a Gtk+ emacs is started in daemon mode.
Hopefully users will help lobby the Gtk+ maintainers to fix the bug if
the warnings is prominently displayed all the time, and the warning
would reduce the number of times this bug gets blamed on emacs.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-10-20 20:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-10-20 12:34 daemon mode breakage Neal Becker
2010-10-20 14:07 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2010-10-20 14:58 ` Scot Becker
2010-10-20 15:27 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2010-10-20 15:32 ` Jan Djärv
2010-10-20 16:13 ` Scot Becker
2010-10-20 16:19 ` Chong Yidong
2010-10-20 20:19 ` Dan Nicolaescu [this message]
2010-10-20 20:56 ` Jan Djärv
2010-10-20 21:01 ` Óscar Fuentes
2010-10-20 23:21 ` Sebastian Rose
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