Re: Questions regarding PGTK, high-dpi font-rendering, new X11-Warning

[Björn Bidar]

Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com> writes:

> Björn Bidar <bjorn.bidar@thaodan.de> writes:
>
>> I also was under the impression that fondering is better using PGTK when
>> using a high dpi screen, even under X11. Was that wrong? 
>
> If by "fondering" you mean font display, then yes, that was wrong: the
> same Cairo font backend as the default X11 build is also used by the
> PGTK build.

Hm something must be wrong then if it didn't scale properly outside of
the X11 build.

>> Now there's this big warning block wich appears when you use PGTK under
>> X11.
>
>> - Will it break emacs --daemon? The frame is spawned right when the X11
>>   display connection is initiated.
>
> Yes, it will crash regardless.

It didn't crash before..

>> - I think it kinda rude to right out spawn a big window on every start,
>>   it doesn't fit into how emacs usually acts. What I'm trying to say is
>>   I think it is ok so show a warning every time server starts but adding
>>   this big blob of text that spawns 2/10 of the screen when Emacs is in
>>   fullscreen is a little much.
>
> The other alternative we considered was to prevent Emacs from starting
> under X11 when compiled with PGTK.

Or make it run as good as it can under X11 and leave the rest of the
remaining issues as work as intended until a fix is found

>> I wonder how viable this strategy if Emacs has to be compiled twice for
>> Wayland support.
>
> The alternative is to have an Emacs that crashes under X11 in various
> common situations.  Please read the message in the dialog box.

Emacs might to something strange with GTK then, it is the only program
having these issues.

So far I didn't experience such issues.

Br,

Björn