Re: porting to Wayland

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen]

Jan Djärv <address@hidden> writes:

> I have updated the YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu patch:
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2009-04/msg00390.html
>
> It all works except some image glitches.
> It does not add another window system, rather expands the xterm.c code.
> I was expecting that Gtk3+ and Cairo together would let us re-enable
> double buffering in Gtk and thus get that for free.  Unfortunately
> this did not work, as Gtk needs to do its drawing in the event loop,
> like the NS port needs to do as mentioned in #17124.
>
> I will probably check this in if I get round to writing all those
> ChangeLog entries and fix the image things.

I just got a Jolla phone running Sailfish, which is apparently a Wayland
server without XWayland.  Would this Wayland port enable running a
graphical Emacs on the phone, I wonder?  Somebody else has apparently
ported a non-graphical Emacs to the phone already...

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