Re: Qt can now survive Wayland compositor restarts

[Po Lu]

Arsen Arsenović <arsen@aarsen.me> writes:

> Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com> writes:
>
>> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>>
>>>> From: Arsen Arsenović <arsen@aarsen.me>
>>>> Cc: Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
>>>> Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2023 23:17:17 +0100
>>>> 
>>>> I was considering trying to do a separation of UI and Elisp threads as a
>>>> solution, but, seeing this happen makes me think a Qt port is easier.
>>>> 
>>>> I'd still like opinions on the former idea, though.  It might be
>>>> worthwhile, but I am operating with little knowledge of that part of the
>>>> code-base, so I'm unsure if there's some deeper reason behind this not
>>>> being the case today.
>>>
>>> FYI: the MS-Windows build of Emacs uses a separate thread for input
>>> and UI.
>>
>> Likewise for the Haiku and Android ports, FWIW.
>
> Reassuring, thanks for the info.  I'll try making some time to do the
> same for PGTK, though I can't promise anything.

Do what?

If you want to fix the GTK crash, you will have to run the GTK stuff in
a separate *process*.  Now that would be a real pain.

Thanks.