Re: master f0ff20be51: * src/emacs.c (main): Improve accuracy of daemon warning message on PGTK.

[Sean Whitton]

Hello,

On Wed 06 Apr 2022 at 05:44PM +02, Robert Pluim wrote:

>>>>>> On Wed, 06 Apr 2022 08:37:20 -0700, Sean Whitton 
>>>>>> <spwhitton@spwhitton.name> said:
>     >> +#ifdef HAVE_PGTK
>     >> +      fputs ("Due to a limitation in GTK 3, Emacs built with PGTK 
> will simply exit when a"
>     >> +           "display connection is closed."
>     >> +           "\nThere is no way to fix this problem, so if you want to 
> use Emacs on Wayland"
>     >> +           "on multiple displays and have Emacs survive disconnects, 
> you lose.",
>
>     Sean> Nice idea to avoid referring users to a bug report that doesn't 
> apply to
>     Sean> pgtk.  But is there truly "no way to fix this problem" in the pgtk 
> case
>     Sean> too?  Is it really that fundamental to the design of GTK3?
>
> There is no way for *emacs* to fix this problem. The GTK guys have
> been sitting on it for 15 years. Iʼm sure they could fix it if they
> wanted to.

That is my understanding of the X11 bug, but the change made me think
that the status of the bug as it applies to pgtk might be subtly
different.

-- 
Sean Whitton