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Re: master f0ff20be51: * src/emacs.c (main): Improve accuracy of daemon


From: Robert Pluim
Subject: Re: master f0ff20be51: * src/emacs.c (main): Improve accuracy of daemon warning message on PGTK.
Date: Wed, 06 Apr 2022 17:44:09 +0200

>>>>> On Wed, 06 Apr 2022 08:37:20 -0700, Sean Whitton 
>>>>> <spwhitton@spwhitton.name> said:
    >> +#ifdef HAVE_PGTK
    >> +      fputs ("Due to a limitation in GTK 3, Emacs built with PGTK will 
simply exit when a"
    >> +             "display connection is closed."
    >> +             "\nThere is no way to fix this problem, so if you want to 
use Emacs on Wayland"
    >> +             "on multiple displays and have Emacs survive disconnects, 
you lose.",

    Sean> Nice idea to avoid referring users to a bug report that doesn't apply 
to
    Sean> pgtk.  But is there truly "no way to fix this problem" in the pgtk 
case
    Sean> too?  Is it really that fundamental to the design of GTK3?

There is no way for *emacs* to fix this problem. The GTK guys have
been sitting on it for 15 years. Iʼm sure they could fix it if they
wanted to.

Robert
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