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

[Óscar Fuentes]

Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name> writes:

> 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.

Is it possible at all to use the PGTK port on multiple graphical
displays? Wayland does not provide network transparency.