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Re: PGTK-related misconceptions
From: |
Sean Whitton |
Subject: |
Re: PGTK-related misconceptions |
Date: |
Sun, 17 Apr 2022 22:18:22 -0700 |
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Emacs/29.0.50 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) |
Hello,
On Fri 15 Apr 2022 at 10:29am +08, Po Lu wrote:
> People using X should _never_ use PGTK. The regular X build does a much
> better job at supporting that than PGTK ever will.
The discussion of pgtk in INSTALL doesn't say this. If I was packaging
Emacs for a distro I think I could be misled into thinking I should
replace my gtk package with pgtk. But in fact I should supply both.
Here is a very simple suggested addition:
> diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL
> index b1e3c72c4b..6cbd74ed55 100644
> --- a/INSTALL
> +++ b/INSTALL
> @@ -253,6 +253,10 @@ to force GTK+ to run under Broadway, start Emacs like
> this:
>
> (where '...' denotes any further options you may want to pass to Emacs).
>
> +If you use X exclusively, do not use the PGTK port. There are a
> +number of respects in which the regular --with-x-toolkit=gtk build
> +works better.
> +
> The GNUstep build also supports the Wayland window system. If that is
> what you want, see nextstep/INSTALL.
--
Sean Whitton
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- Re: PGTK-related misconceptions, Sean Whitton, 2022/04/18
- Re: PGTK-related misconceptions, Jim Porter, 2022/04/18
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- Re: PGTK-related misconceptions, Sean Whitton, 2022/04/18
- Re: PGTK-related misconceptions, Tim Cross, 2022/04/18
- Re: PGTK-related misconceptions, Eli Zaretskii, 2022/04/19
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