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Re: Questions regarding PGTK, high-dpi font-rendering, new X11-Warning


From: Po Lu
Subject: Re: Questions regarding PGTK, high-dpi font-rendering, new X11-Warning
Date: Thu, 01 Dec 2022 08:52:42 +0800
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13)

Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

> What I read here is "we should move each GUI event loop into its own
> thread" :-)

That's not ok, as Xlib (used by both those toolkits, and also Emacs
itself) is not thread safe.

Even though it can be thread safe at first glance, having multiple
threads work at the same time will mess up request serial tracking, and
`x_error_catcher' and friends will stop working.


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