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`display-monitor-attributes-list` not working properly on macOS

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From: Ship Mints <shipmints <at> gmail.com>
To: Robert Pluim <rpluim <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 76691 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Juri Linkov <juri <at> linkov.net>, Ruiyang Wu <ywwry66 <at> gmail.com>, Stefan Kangas <stefankangas <at> gmail.com>
Subject: bug#76691: `display-monitor-attributes-list` not working properly on macOS
Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2025 10:55:25 -0500

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On Wed, Mar 5, 2025 at 10:54 AM Robert Pluim <rpluim <at> gmail.com> wrote:

> >>>>> On Wed, 5 Mar 2025 10:40:11 -0500, Ship Mints <shipmints <at> gmail.com>
> said:
>
>     Ship> Hmm.  I never see these.  I wonder what's different about your
> set up.
>     Ship> These seem independent of the NS display name improvement.
>
> Yes, I doubt itʼs related. Itʼs also hard to reproduce.
>
>     Ship> Should we push the display name patch and see what feedback we
> get from a
>     Ship> larger audience?  It seems low risk vs. rewriting macOS socket
> handling.
>
> You can only push the patch as-is if the maintainers agree that
> removing the old methods for getting the display name is appropriate.
>

The old methods don't work and seem to have been broken for a long time.
Let's see what they think.

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