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From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org>
Cc: 19138@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#19138: Emacs crashes
Date: Sun, 14 Dec 2014 12:00:44 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87egs2bin7.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87bnn853vc.fsf@yeeloong.lan> (Mark H. Weaver's message of "Sat, 13 Dec 2014 03:51:51 -0500")

Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org> skribis:

> This fix causes two unfortunate side effects on my system:
>
> * When launching Emacs from the WindowMaker dock, the dock icon stays
>   gray forever (indicating that the program is launching).  However, it
>   should be noted that the WindowMaker dock handling of Emacs 24.4 was
>   already somewhat broken before this, although in a different way.

I don’t know how the WindowMaker dock works actually.  I tried it in a
VM, but there are only two icons: one for the WindowMaker preferences,
and one for xterm.  If you have an idea how this works, I’m all ears.
:-)

> * The window title is now ".emacs-real@<hostname>".
>
> Regarding the window title: it occurs to me that it would be better for
> our wrapper script to pass the original program name as argv[0].  This
> could be important for some programs whose behavior depends on argv[0].

Good idea.  Done in 2ed11b3 in ‘core-updates’.

Thanks,
Ludo’.

      parent reply	other threads:[~2014-12-14 11:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-11-21 10:42 bug#19138: Emacs crashes Andreas Enge
2014-12-09 22:24 ` Ludovic Courtès
2014-12-13  8:51   ` Mark H Weaver
2014-12-13 10:09     ` Mark H Weaver
2014-12-14 11:00     ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]

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