On 2018-08-12 17:33:22 -0500, Rob Browning wrote: > Vincent Lefevre <vinc...@vinc17.net> writes: > > The answer is to build Emacs with "--without-gsettings". > > That's not how I read the thread, or rather it sounded like they were > saying that it's not a general solution, but it might be fine for a > custom build for you. > > i.e. I read the thread more as emacs is "working as designed" for > current libraries, desktops, etc.
Well, there's a bug, and this bug must be fixed somewhere, by building emacs with --without-gsettings if not fixed anywhere else. For GNOME users, GNOME has its own editor anyway. > But if you want --without-gsettings, then perhaps you could just switch > to the emacs-lucid or emacs-nox packages, they've been building > --without-gsettings since 24.3+1-2. (Though I suspect you may well hit > other similar problems in the long run.) I want an X interface, so that emacs-nox is not OK. I had used the lucid version in the past when Emacs was affected by a GTK bug, but IIRC, there were some rendering issues of this interface. Moreover, emacs-lucid cannot be installed due to a conflict with emacs-calfw. > Alternately, you could "apt build-dep emacs25" (or emacs-gtk if you're > using sid), and "fakeroot debian/rules binary" after adjusting the > debian/rules confflags to build your own gtk version > --without-gsettings. Yes, but that's annoying. > Or, as I've seen suggested elsewhere, you might consider switching from > the potentially fraught approach of using su, to a tramp or sudoedit > based approach (since it doesn't sound like emacs upstream expects the > su approach to ever necessarily avoid this kind of issue -- gsettings or > not). I often need to do other things from root (e.g. daemon stop/start), not just edit files. The current workaround is to unset XDG_RUNTIME_DIR completely (this is sufficient for Emacs and doesn't affect dbus), but this might yield other issues and bug reports... But in any case, the bug needs to be fixed. -- Vincent Lefèvre <vinc...@vinc17.net> - Web: <https://www.vinc17.net/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <https://www.vinc17.net/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / AriC project (LIP, ENS-Lyon)
