Subject: Re: bug#65509: [PATCH] Use correct env var when opening frames with freedesktop menu entries

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 03 Sep 2023 08:34:21 +0300

> From: Po Lu <[email-masked]>
> Cc: Davide Masserut <[email-masked]>,  [email-masked],
>   [email-masked]
> Date: Sun, 03 Sep 2023 08:59:04 +0800
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]> writes:
> 
> >> For the same reason that the current emacsclient.desktop doesn't 
> >> work with Wayland, installing the patch would break PGTK builds 
> >> under Xorg because they would look for an environment variable 
> >> that is not set by Xorg DEs.  Sorry, I've just noticed it.
> >
> > Can you describe the issue in more detail?  In particular, would it
> > work to try several variables one after another?
> 
> PGTK builds don't support X anyway, so this is a nonproblem.

Not sure I understand: you are saying we should install the patch and
stop worrying about breaking some other configuration?