Subject: bug#40831: 28.0.50; Remote Emacsclient with --create-frame doesn't seem to work correctly

From: Robert Pluim <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 2021 09:17:33 +0100

>>>>> On Thu, 28 Jan 2021 07:50:50 +0100, Lars Ingebrigtsen <[email-masked]> said:

    Lars> Robert Pluim <[email-masked]> writes:
    Philipp> 3. On the remote machine:
    Philipp> emacsclient -T "/ssh:$HOSTNAME:/" -s /tmp/emacs.sock
    Philipp> --create-frame FILENAME
    Philipp> At least on my setup, no frame is created on the first machine.
    >> 
    >> '--create-frame' attempts to create a graphical frame, as far as I
    >> know. Does '-t' work instead?

    Lars> But isn't the bug report about not being able to create graphical
    Lars> frames?  I'd assume -t would work fine...

Where's the X connection that emacs would use to create the graphical
frame? Itʼs the emacs server socket thatʼs been forwarded.

Robert