Re: 23.0.50; [emacsclient] *ERROR*: Don't know how to create a frame on window system x

[Dan Nicolaescu]

Luca Capello <address@hidden> writes:

  > Hi all!
  > 
  > Please Cc: me, I'm not subscribed to the list.
  > 
  > On Sun, 14 Oct 2007 22:16:56 +0200, Luca Capello wrote:
  > > I get the output in the subject whenever I tried to use emacsclient
  > > with something very simple like (the same trying to editing a file):
  > >
  > >   $ emacsclient -e 'user-full-name'
  > 
  > This was the first time I reported this bug.
  > 
  > On Fri, 16 Nov 2007 17:44:13 +0100, Dan Nicolaescu wrote:
  > > Luca Capello <address@hidden> writes:
  > >> Anyway, since this is unrelated to the previous bug (which is still
  > >> present on emacs-snapshot-nox_1:20071111-1), I changed the subject.
  > >
  > > I assume you are talking about the "don't know how to created a frame
  > > on window system x" problem. Can you please describe how you get this,
  > > starting from "emacs -Q" so that we can reproduce the issue?
  > 
  > I assumed that the reproducibility of the error was clearly known.  To
  > avoid any other misunderstanding on that, I use StumpWM, uxterm and
  > emacs-snapshot-nox, which means emacs CVS compiled without X support.

I fixed this bug on Oct 17, then Stefan replaced my fix with a different
one that does not seem to actually fix the problem...  

Stefan, can you please take a look? I don't see how your fix can be
correct, make-frame-on-display is defined in frame.el, so fboundp will
always be t. What am I missing?


  > So, in a uxterm:
  > 
  >   $ emacs -Q
  >   M-: (server-start)
  > 
  > Launch another uxterm and try to connect to the emacs server:
  > 
  >   $ emacsclient -e 'user-full-name'
  >   *ERROR*: Don't know how to create a frame on window system x
  > 
  > As Michael Mauger suggested, unsetting DISPLAY solved it:
  > 
  >   $ DISPLAY= emacsclient -e 'user-full-name'
  >   "Luca Capello"
  > 
  > Thx, bye,
  > Gismo / Luca