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Re: emacs, GSettings, and gtk3
- From: "Yaakov (Cygwin/X)" <yselkowitz at users dot sourceforge dot net>
- To: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2012 00:51:10 -0600
- Subject: Re: emacs, GSettings, and gtk3
- References: <50B366E1.1060407@cornell.edu>
- Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
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
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