Public bug reported: Binary package hint: emacs23
One of the best new features in emacs23 is "--daemon". An emacs daemon can persist as long as you want, across login sessions. However, this doesn't work well in Karmic because of two issues: 1. The XAUTHORITY environment variable changes with every login session, so when you log in a second time the daemon is using a stale value and cannot open new windows. I tried to work around this by using "M-x setenv" from within emacs, but apparently emacs doesn't reread the environment (strace shows it still trying to open the old path). 2. Gnome complains that emacs is still running when you log out. (Yes, of course it's still running, that's the point.) This is just a minor annoyance, you can ignore the warning and it doesn't cause further problems. ProblemType: Bug Architecture: i386 Date: Sun Nov 15 22:59:17 2009 DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10 InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release i386 (20091028.5) NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia Package: emacs23 23.1+1-4ubuntu3 ProcEnviron: PATH=(custom, user) LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-14.48-generic SourcePackage: emacs23 Uname: Linux 2.6.31-14-generic i686 ** Affects: emacs23 (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Tags: apport-bug i386 -- Ubuntu doesn't play well with emacs --daemon across sessions https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/483396 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs