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29.0.92; pure-GTK warning under Wayland

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: pankaj <at> codeisgreat.org, Po Lu <luangruo <at> yahoo.com>
Cc: 64310 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#64310: 29.0.92; pure-GTK warning under Wayland
Date: Sat, 01 Jul 2023 11:41:16 +0300

Ping!  Pankaj, can you please answer Po Lu's questions, so that we
could continue investigating this issue?

> Cc: 64310 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2023 08:26:15 +0800
> From:  Po Lu via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs,
>  the Swiss army knife of text editors" <bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org>
> 
> Pankaj Jangid <pankaj <at> codeisgreat.org> writes:
> 
> > Sorry for reporting this so late. I am using pure-GTK build since about
> > a year ago and this problem was first observed a few months ago, but I
> > am reporting it now because it occurred on my system again today.
> >
> > I am on a Wayland system (Debian 12 Bookworm). My system is configured
> > to use Gnus as default mailto sender. It opens the message window but
> > also opens a warning that says, "You are trying to run Emacs configured
> > with the "pure-GTK" interface under X Window System". This warning
> > doesn't appear when I start Emacs normally. Only occurs when "mailto:"
> > is triggered from other application like browser. I am 100% sure that I
> > am using Wayland. Because the value of $XDG_SESSION_TYPE is
> > "wayland". And "WaylandEnable=false" is commented in my system's
> > "/etc/gdm3/daemon.conf".
> 
> This dialog cannot be displayed if Emacs is using the GDK Wayland
> backend.  Perhaps the WAYLAND_DISPLAY environment variable was not set
> when Emacs was started to handle the mailto URI.
> 
> How did you configure Emacs to handle such URIs?
> 
> 
> 
> 

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