From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Dan Nicolaescu Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: daemon mode breakage Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2010 16:19:27 -0400 Message-ID: References: <8762wwltu8.fsf@stupidchicken.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1287605978 4555 80.91.229.12 (20 Oct 2010 20:19:38 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2010 20:19:38 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Neal Becker , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Chong Yidong Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Oct 20 22:19:37 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1P8f8K-0005Q3-Rk for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 20 Oct 2010 22:19:37 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:46000 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1P8f8K-0001zh-8X for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 20 Oct 2010 16:19:36 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=48919 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1P8f8D-0001yd-PZ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 20 Oct 2010 16:19:30 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1P8f8C-0007jY-9d for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 20 Oct 2010 16:19:29 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]:41499) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1P8f8C-0007jU-6s for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 20 Oct 2010 16:19:28 -0400 Original-Received: from dann by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1P8f8B-0005M2-HD; Wed, 20 Oct 2010 16:19:27 -0400 In-Reply-To: <8762wwltu8.fsf@stupidchicken.com> (Chong Yidong's message of "Wed\, 20 Oct 2010 12\:19\:59 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:131908 Archived-At: Chong Yidong writes: > Dan Nicolaescu 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.