GNU bug report logs - #32921
emacsclient obeys Xresources even when launched with -nw

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
Cc: luangruo <at> yahoo.com, 32921 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, jimis <at> gmx.net
Subject: bug#32921: emacsclient obeys Xresources even when launched with -nw
Date: Fri, 20 May 2022 09:54:18 +0300

> From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
> Cc: Po Lu <luangruo <at> yahoo.com>,  32921 <at> debbugs.gnu.org,  jimis <at> gmx.net
> Date: Fri, 20 May 2022 01:04:10 +0200
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:
> 
> > And if you are saying that the code in x-win.el should only affect the
> > display on which Emacs was started, then that would be an even more
> > seriously breaking change.  Why should we assume that the user
> > intended his/her X resources to be only honored on the (random)
> > display where Emacs shows its first frame?  The files ~/.Xresources
> > and ~/.Xdefaults are not specific to any display, AFAIU, they are
> > global for the user.  Right?
> 
> As Po says, X resources are a per-display thing -- the user may have
> wildly differing X resources on different displays, and the intention of
> X is that programs should query the X resource database whenever a new
> window (i.e., frame) is opened.
> 
> Which removing that code from x-win.el would do.
> 
> I think Po is right here -- that code snippet in x-win.el just looks
> like a misunderstanding.  (We handle all other X resources correctly, it
> just this one that we handle in this wrong manner.)

I object to removing that code without any trace.  We should resolve
the bug by adding the X resource derived reverseVideo argument to
window-system-default-frame-alist instead of default-frame-alist.  If
you still insist on changing the age-old behavior, then at least
provide a way for users who want that to have that behavior back
(which might not be easy, since we are talking about something that
happens at startup, but I think we load the user init file before
calling the window-system initialization?).

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