GNU bug report logs - #67628
Emacs 29.1: (x-open-connection (getenv "DISPLAY")) gets "Display :0.0 does not exist" error

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Herman <mahlamytsike <at> gmail.com>

Date: Mon, 4 Dec 2023 20:02:01 UTC

Severity: normal

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Po Lu <luangruo <at> yahoo.com>
Cc: mahlamytsike <at> gmail.com, 67628 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#67628: Emacs 29.1: (x-open-connection (getenv "DISPLAY")) gets "Display :0.0 does not exist" error
Date: Wed, 06 Dec 2023 15:15:03 +0200

> From: Po Lu <luangruo <at> yahoo.com>
> Cc: mahlamytsike <at> gmail.com,  67628 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Wed, 06 Dec 2023 20:50:31 +0800
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:
> 
> > Oh, and one more question: why doesn't this happen in Emacs 28?  IOW,
> > what caused this "regression" in Emacs 29?
> 
> The same change that's behind bug#64809 and bug#65191, among others.  In
> retrospect, the Cairo dynamic-setting code in bug#43128 shouldn't have
> been installed at all, but then hindsight is universally 20/20.

If you mean commit 52d4c98cec0901ef5cc1c55d5b3b33ac9d9c519f, then I
don't see how it could cause the error.  Can you explain?
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