Answer inline... On Thu, 19 Jun 2025 at 14:28, Jan Beich <jbe...@freebsd.org> wrote: > > Pedro Andres Aranda Gutierrez <paag...@gmail.com> writes: > > > I'm mainly on x11 with occasional visits to wayland, as Dmitry, to > > "see what it does", or maybe, to be more precise, to see if I can > > avoid having to compile emacs-devel from the ports to get it running > > on x11. An alternative would be to include emacs-devel-x and > > emacs-devel-pgtk separately in the pkg repositories... > > If something practical doesn't work, please, document in > https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=268386 > > GTK (unlike XAW et al.) isn't the most stable GUI for Emacs e.g., > > $ emacs --daemon > Warning: due to a long standing Gtk+ bug > https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtk/issues/221 > Emacs might crash when run in daemon mode and the X11 connection is > unexpectedly lost. > Using an Emacs configured with --with-x-toolkit=lucid does not have this > problem. > [...]
Never bumped on this one in +30 years of use. I could say "not my use case" ;-) GTK Emacs supports things like placing and resizing the Emacs window programmatically and that can't be done with PGTK Emacs (on Wayland). I value that more. Having to place the Emacs window manually is (politely speaking) "a boring extra". > I've frequently bumped into the issue on X11 when editing xorg.conf > (e.g., test compton vs. TearFree) or updating xf86-* drivers thus needed > to restart Xorg. It's less of a concern on Wayland because most > compositors support live config updates and don't use xf86-* at all. Then I'm lucky enough that I my HW is old and I don't need to tweak it. Or when I've needed to, I decided a reboot was worth it. Best, /PA -- Fragen sind nicht da, um beantwortet zu werden, Fragen sind da um gestellt zu werden Georg Kreisler Sagen's Paradeiser, write BE! Year 1 of the New Koprocracy
