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jeffk
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 Posted: Sat Jul 21, 2012 1:12 pm Post subject: Emacs USE Xaw3d -gtk what does frame look like, xft? |
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I'm motivated to update my emacs-24 and emacs-vcs USE to address the known bug with emacs daemon, GTK and X disconnects:
| Code: | Your current Emacs is compiled with GTK+. There is a long-standing
bug in GTK+ that prevents Emacs from recovering from X disconnects:
<http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=85715>
If you run Emacs as a daemon, then it is strongly recommended that
you compile it with the Lucid toolkit, i.e. with USE="Xaw3d -gtk". |
I've run into this on many occasions, but X restarts are infrequent enough that I've just lived with the risk.
In what areas would graphical or capability differences be noticed with +Xaw3d -gtk?
I use Emacs full screen, with no menu or other window decoration. I never use GUI windows for file selection, etc. The only place I regularly see a widget is when shift-clicking to change font size in a frame (I can never remember the command to do that), and the in-buffer buttons on buffers like customize, etc.
Is the move away from GTK and GTK3 going to change the user experience other than widgets?
| Code: | $ sudo emerge emacs emacs-vcs -pv
[ebuild R ] app-editors/emacs-24.1 USE="X alsa dbus gif gnutls gpm gtk gtk3 imagemagick jpeg
libxml2 png sound svg tiff xft xpm -Xaw3d (-aqua) -athena -games -gconf -gsettings -gzip-el -hesiod
-kerberos -livecd -m17n-lib -motif -pax_kernel (-selinux) -source -toolkit-scroll-bars -wide-int" 0 kB
[ebuild R #] app-editors/emacs-vcs-24.1.9999-r1 USE="X alsa dbus gif gnutls gpm gtk gtk3
imagemagick jpeg libxml2 png sound svg tiff xft xpm -Xaw3d -athena -games -gconf -gsettings
-gzip-el -hesiod -kerberos -m17n-lib -motif -pax_kernel (-selinux) -source -toolkit-scroll-bars
-wide-int" 0 kB |
Thanks for any tips. |
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nordic bro
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| Posted: Sun Jul 22, 2012 4:44 pm Post subject: Re: Emacs USE Xaw3d -gtk what does frame look like, xft? |
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| jeffk wrote: | In what areas would graphical or capability differences be noticed with +Xaw3d -gtk?
I use Emacs full screen, with no menu or other window decoration. I never use GUI windows for file selection, etc. The only place I regularly see a widget is when shift-clicking to change font size in a frame (I can never remember the command to do that), and the in-buffer buttons on buffers like customize, etc.
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tbh I don't expect this will help much because I'm not entirely sure but I've always built emacs myself and only since I think 22 or maybe 21 did I start using './configure ... --with-x-toolkit=gtk'; until then I had always used './configure ... --with-x-toolkit=athena' (which enables Xaw3d).
iirc the only real difference was visual in that the menubar/menus and scrollbar/arrows use the color/gradient effects of my gtk desktop theme which makes them stand out a bit more from buffer bg. I suspect perhaps modeline could be affected too but I think I'm overriding that somewhere (personal preference). with "athena" I think the menubar/menus at least picked up their color from ~/.Xdefaults 'emacs*Background' (how I did it anyway) so the affect made it more or less seamless visually.
so if there's some functionality aspect to using/not using gtk it's not something I was aware of or recall taking note of once I made the change. |
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papandreoos
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| Posted: Tue May 15, 2018 8:55 pm Post subject: |
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do i need to also -gtk3 ?
this is my use flags.
gtk3 is enabled.
should i also disable GTK3 or disabling GTK alone, is enough to not encounter this bug?
| Code: | * Found these USE flags for app-editors/emacs-26.1_rc1:
U I
+ + X : Add support for X11
+ + Xaw3d : Add support for the 3d athena widget set
+ + acl : Add support for Access Control Lists
+ + alsa : Add support for media-libs/alsa-lib (Advanced Linux
Sound Architecture)
- - athena : Enable the MIT Athena widget set (x11-libs/libXaw)
+ + dbus : Enable dbus support for anything that needs it
(gpsd, gnomemeeting, etc)
- - dynamic-loading : Enable loading of dynamic libraries at runtime
- - games : Support shared score files for games
- - gconf : Use gnome-base/gconf to read the system font name
- - gfile : Use gfile (dev-libs/glib) for file notification
+ + gif : Add GIF image support
+ + gpm : Add support for sys-libs/gpm (Console-based mouse
driver)
- - gsettings : Use gsettings (dev-libs/glib) to read the system
font name
- - gtk : Add support for x11-libs/gtk+ (The GIMP Toolkit)
+ + gtk3 : Prefer version 3 of the GIMP Toolkit to version 2
(x11-libs/gtk+)
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