[debbugs-tracker] bug#17352: closed (.emacs.desktop has become unportable between GUI and TTY.)

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GUI and TTY.
has caused the debbugs.gnu.org bug report #17352,
regarding .emacs.desktop has become unportable between GUI and TTY.
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> .emacs.desktop has become unportable between GUI and TTY.
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> Sat, 26 Apr 2014 18:25:45 +0000
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> Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15)
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> Hello, Emacs.
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> I just tried starting a GUI Emacs, and it refused to process my
> .emacs.desktop, complaining:
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>     "Error (frameset): Font `tty' is not defined [7 times]
>     Waraning (frameset): Attempt to delete the sole visible or iconified frame
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> Emacs deleted my .emacs.desktop before I could look at it (see bug
> #17351).  But at a guess, it had recorded the "font" used as "tty" at
> the close of my last TTY session, and not finding this "font" in the GUI
> font subsystem gave up.
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> I immediately started a TTY Emacs, and there got some error message
> something like "Can't open terminal (0.0)".  For some reason, this error
> message wasn't recorded in *Messages*.
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> This lack of portability is a bug.  Sharing a desktop file between GUI
> and TTY sessions is the sort of thing Emacs should be able to do without
> batting an eylid.  The font in use and the particular terminal (?) used
> to create .emacs.desktop are _not_ essential information.  Such
> information should be regarded by the desktop subsystem as hints,
> nothing more.
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> My Emacs is the trunk at revision #116992.
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> -- 
> Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).
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> Re: bug#17352: .emacs.desktop has become unportable between GUI and TTY.
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> Fri, 29 Sep 2017 21:12:05 +0300
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> > From: Kaushal Modi <address@hidden>
> > Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2017 17:06:36 +0000
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> > Thank you!
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> > I confirm this fix.
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> > How I tested:
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> > 1. Open emacsclient -nw& 
> > 2. Quit (my config saves desktop when quitting) i.e. kill emacs completely
> > 3. Verify that the desktop file got updated
> > 4. Open emacsclient &
> > 5. Starts up without that "Error (frameset): Font ‘tty’ is not defined" error
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> > I believe you can mark this as done now.
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> Thanks, done.
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