Kenneth Westerback writes:
> Alas, I can't make the emacs-28.2-gtk3 I downloaded from the link jca@
> provided work. :-(
>
> If I do my normal 'emacs --daemon' from i3 I get two (?) running 'emacs
> --daemon' processes and 'emacsclient -c' does not seem to do anything.
> If I just do 'emacs' it flashes the startup screen briefly, goes black
> and then doesn't do much else. At least I only get 1 emacs process.
>
> No idea if there is a newer package available to test, or if there is a
> library dependency that I managed to break during my
> g2k22/EuroBSDCon2022 travels.
I cannot reproduce this with both building a package and jca@'s provided
package. I see only the expected behavior with one `emacs --daemon' and
multiple emacs clients being able to connect and see the same instance
using multiple `emacsclient -c'.
Here are some sanity checks to try:
1. make sure snapshot is updated
2. reinstall emacs-28.1. does `emacs --daemon' and `emacsclient -c' work
there?
3. test in a different window manager like dwm
4. use -q to ignore .emacs config
emacs --daemon -q
emacsclient -c
5. maybe some alias issue? use full paths
/usr/local/bin/{emacs,emacsclient} to be sure
6. try `emacs -q' by itself since you said even emacs flashes screen
briefly and goes black
When I try to launch emacs --daemon multiple times it errors out the
second time as expected.
>
> This is on an amd64 Lenovo E595.
>
> Happy to provide any potentially useful debug info or test stuff.
>
> .... Ken
