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Re: with-pgtk: C-; turns into plain ';'
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
Re: with-pgtk: C-; turns into plain ';' |
Date: |
Tue, 15 Feb 2022 16:11:52 +0200 |
> From: Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com>
> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, raman@google.com
> Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2022 22:03:36 +0800
>
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>
> > IMNSHO, not explicitly enough:
> >
> > ** Emacs now supports being built with pure GTK.
> > To use this option, make sure the GTK 3 and Cairo development files
> > are installed, and configure Emacs with the option '--with-pgtk'.
> > Unlike the default X and GTK build, the resulting Emacs binary will
> > work on any underlying window system supported by GDK, such as
> > Wayland and Broadway.
> >
> > No matter how many times I re-read this, I fail to understand that it
> > tells me not to use it on X, and it definitely doesn't warn me of any
> > downsides if I do. A word of warning is definitely in order there.
>
> How about "the resulting Emacs binary is supposed to work with window
> systems other than X that are supported by GDK, such as Wayland and
> Broadway"?
I'd suggest something more explicit, like
We do not recommend that you use this configuration, unless you are
running a window system that's supported by GDK, such as Wayland or
Broadway. Running this configuration on X is known to have
problems, like ...
(describe a couple of problems instead of the ellipsis).
- with-pgtk: C-; turns into plain ';', T.V Raman, 2022/02/14
- Re: with-pgtk: C-; turns into plain ';', Po Lu, 2022/02/14
- Re: with-pgtk: C-; turns into plain ';', Eli Zaretskii, 2022/02/15
- Re: with-pgtk: C-; turns into plain ';', Po Lu, 2022/02/15
- Re: with-pgtk: C-; turns into plain ';', Eli Zaretskii, 2022/02/15
- Re: with-pgtk: C-; turns into plain ';', Po Lu, 2022/02/15
- Re: with-pgtk: C-; turns into plain ';',
Eli Zaretskii <=
- Re: with-pgtk: C-; turns into plain ';', Tim Cross, 2022/02/15
- Re: with-pgtk: C-; turns into plain ';', Po Lu, 2022/02/15
- Re: with-pgtk: C-; turns into plain ';', Tim Cross, 2022/02/15
- Re: with-pgtk: C-; turns into plain ';', T.V Raman, 2022/02/15
- Re: with-pgtk: C-; turns into plain ';', Tim Cross, 2022/02/16
- Re: with-pgtk: C-; turns into plain ';', Po Lu, 2022/02/16
- Re: with-pgtk: C-; turns into plain ';', Tassilo Horn, 2022/02/16
- Re: with-pgtk: C-; turns into plain ';', Po Lu, 2022/02/16
- Re: with-pgtk: C-; turns into plain ';', Tassilo Horn, 2022/02/16
- Re: with-pgtk: C-; turns into plain ';', Po Lu, 2022/02/16