Re: To Emacs packagers!

[Dominik Schrempf]

Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com> writes:

> An alarming number of GNU/Linux distributions are not incorporating
> XInput 2 support within their Emacs packages.  Arch Linux and Nix, for
> example.

(NixOS user here). I think this issue was fixed in Nixpkgs around 2
weeks ago:

https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/252721

I am not sure if the change was back-ported though.

>
> This is typically an error of omission: despite enabling --with-xinput2,
> they do not guarantee that the libXi headers are present during the
> configuration process.  XInput 2 support remains disabled.
>
> Emacs binaries employing X11 extensions will continue to function on X
> servers with those extensions absent, so there is no justification for
> intentionally disabling XInput2 support.