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#72303
When emacs-pgtk fails to find a Wayland display available, it fails to run instead of opening in -nw mode
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Reported by: Gunnar Wolf <gwolf <at> gwolf.org>
Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2024 05:02:01 UTC
Severity: normal
Done: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
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Package: emacs
I have Emacs installed in all of my systems. Paricularly, I have
emacs-pgtk all systems where I often use a graphical environment (and
emacs-nox in those where I don't).
Back when I used X11, if I started Emacs and had no $DISPLAY set, it
would open in a terminal. With emacs-pgtk, the behavior is not the
same:
$ emacs foobar
(emacs:3988): Gtk-WARNING **: 19:19:10.887: cannot open display:
$
This impacted me because I neede to use a remote machine to do work
via scripts (i.e. dch, debcommit) that call /usr/bin/editor and I
found impossible to hand-specify emacs to use -nw; I ended up
installing emacs-nox, but I don't find it to be an acceptable,
transparent-enough solution.
I think emacs-pgtk should behave just as emacs-gtk, falling back to
the console if a windowed environment is not found.
Thank you in advance!
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> Cc: 72303 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2024 08:48:18 +0300
> From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
>
> > Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2024 20:37:40 -0600
> > From: Gunnar Wolf <gwolf <at> gwolf.org>
> >
> > Package: emacs
> >
> > I have Emacs installed in all of my systems. Paricularly, I have
> > emacs-pgtk all systems where I often use a graphical environment (and
> > emacs-nox in those where I don't).
> >
> > Back when I used X11, if I started Emacs and had no $DISPLAY set, it
> > would open in a terminal. With emacs-pgtk, the behavior is not the
> > same:
> >
> > $ emacs foobar
> >
> > (emacs:3988): Gtk-WARNING **: 19:19:10.887: cannot open display:
> > $
> >
> > This impacted me because I neede to use a remote machine to do work
> > via scripts (i.e. dch, debcommit) that call /usr/bin/editor and I
> > found impossible to hand-specify emacs to use -nw; I ended up
> > installing emacs-nox, but I don't find it to be an acceptable,
> > transparent-enough solution.
> >
> > I think emacs-pgtk should behave just as emacs-gtk, falling back to
> > the console if a windowed environment is not found.
>
> This is a known problem with the PGTK build, for which unfortunately
> there's no known solution. See bug#63555 and bug#65886.
>
> Po Lu, it sounds like we need a PROBLEMS entry for this issue, as it
> comes up very frequently.
With the PROBLEMS entry now added, I'm closing this bug.
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