Re: daemon mode breakage

[Dan Nicolaescu]

Scot Becker <address@hidden> writes:

> Out of curiosity (I experience this bug too) what do you have to give up if 
> you
> compile with Lucid?

The toolbar, scroll bar, dialogs and the menus use different widgets,
so they don't look as spiffy, but no core functionality is lost.


> I assume that anti-aliased fonts would go. 

No.

> Do you loose the ability to use proportional fonts as well

No.


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> On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 3:07 PM, Dan Nicolaescu <address@hidden> wrote:
>
>     Neal Becker <address@hidden> writes:
>
>     > emacs-23.2.1 fedora 13 x86_64
>     >
>     > I start emacs --daemon on a remote
>     >
>     > If I connect with emacsclient -c , and then cleanly disconnect, (e.g.,
>     C-x
>     > C-c), I can subsequently re-connect with emacsclient -c.
>     >
>     > But if the connection is rudely dropped, then when I attempt to
>     re-connect
>     > I get a blank window.
>
>     This is a bug in Gtk+.
>     http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=85715.  (emacs/etc/PROBLEMS
>     has a note about this too).
>     If you intend to use the daemon mode, it's better to compile emacs
>     using the lucid toolkit.
>     It doesn't look like the Gtk+ bug will ever be fixed so...