On Mon, 2012-11-26 at 07:56 -0500, Ken Brown wrote: > I'm trying to decide whether the benefits of GSettings and gtk3 > outweigh the annoyances. I'd like the opinions of emacs users and GNOME > experts on this. Here are the details: > > 1. If emacs is built using gtk3 and the window geometry is specified on > the command line or in ~/.Xdefaults, the following warning appears in > the terminal from which emacs was started: > > Gtk-WARNING **: gtk_window_parse_geometry() called on a window with no > visible children; the window should be set up before > gtk_window_parse_geometry() is called. > > The warning can safely be ignored but is annoying.
GTK+ warnings aren't uncommon, as GTK+ behaviour gradually changes over time and programs don't always keep up. If the program operates correctly, and upstream says they can be ignored, then I wouldn't worry about them. As for choosing between GTK+ 2 vs 3, I would go with the upstream default. > 2. If emacs is built with GSettings support and is started without a > D-Bus daemon running, the following warning is issued: > > GLib-WARNING **: In call to g_spawn_sync(), exit status of a child > process was requested but SIGCHLD action was set to SIG_IGN and ECHILD > was received by waitpid(), so exit status can't be returned. This is a > bug in the program calling g_spawn_sync(); either don't request the exit > status, or don't set the SIGCHLD action. > > In this case there is a simple workaround: Ensure, by a suitable line in > ~/.startxwinrc or ~/.bashrc, that a D-Bus daemon is always running > before emacs is started. A D-Bus session daemon is required for most modern desktop software nowadays, so I wouldn't consider this a setback. HTH, Yaakov -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ FAQ: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/
