Re: Emacs as a desktop environment

[Ken Raeburn]

On May 25, 2011, at 15:26, Evans Winner wrote:
> ,------ Ken Raeburn wrote ------
> |    emacsclient and daemon mode (but don't build for gtk!)
> 
> I use this functionality every day (in fact, I'm writing
> this on a tunneled Emacs right now).  I am wondering why you
> say not to compile with GTK?

The GTK code is, apparently, rather poor at supporting multiple displays.  
It'll work some of the time, but sometimes -- I forget; maybe when a display 
goes away unexpectedly -- it'll break.  I got the impression (that other people 
had gotten the impression) that it wasn't an issue that was getting much 
attention from the GTK folks.

>   How would you
> recommend compiling?

I use "--with-x-toolkit=lucid", and haven't had any problems.

Ken