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30.0.50; Mailto URI handler emacsclient doesn't show unless there's a visible frame

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Message #17 received at 71579 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Stefan Kangas <stefankangas <at> gmail.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: Björn Bidar <bjorn.bidar <at> thaodan.de>,
 71579 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#71579: 30.0.50; Mailto URI handler emacsclient doesn't show
 unless there's a visible frame
Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2025 18:03:27 -0800

Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:

>> From: Björn Bidar <bjorn.bidar <at> thaodan.de>
>> Cc: 71579 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
>> Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2024 06:49:47 +0300
>>
>> Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:
>>
>> >> Date: Sun, 16 Jun 2024 00:35:11 +0300
>> >> From:  Björn Bidar via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs,
>> >>  the Swiss army knife of text editors" <bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> If there's no open frame when using the emacsclient version of the
>> >> mailto handler no frame to show the newly created message buffer
>> >> will be opened.
>> >>
>> >> 1. Use Emacs (client) as mailto handler
>> >> 2. Make sure all frames are closed
>> >> 3. Open mailto link
>> >> 4. See bug
>> >
>> > Thanks, but please tell more details.  Specifically, how do you do
>> > item 1 above?  Also item 3.  Someone will have to reproduce these
>> > steps to try to debug them, so we need to know those details.
>>
>> 1. The Emacs Client Email desktop file emacsclient-mail.desktop
>>    is set as application to open mailto links
>>    in the users desktop environment, in my case this is KDE.
>> 3. Open mailto link means open a mailto link in a application such
>>    as a browser to be specific I used the website below to test:
>>    https://www.scottseverance.us/mailto.html
>>
>> Emacs is running with emacs --fg-daemon without any frames open.
>
> Thanks.  If you invoke the same command, does it also fail to display
> a frame?  I don't have access to a system where I can use
> emacsclient-mail.desktop, so I did the following to emulate that:
>
>   . start emacs --fg-daemon
>   . from a different terminal started this command:
>
>       ./lib-src/emacsclient --alternate-editor= --create-frame --eval "(message-mailto (pop server-eval-args-left))" 'eliz <at> gnu.org'
>
> This opened a new frame with a mail composition buffer shown.  So the
> problem is not reproduced on my system.
>
> Can someone else please try reproducing this?

Björn did you make any progress with answering Eli's questions above?

Thanks in advance.

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