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author | Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> | 2024-04-06 11:13:35 -0400 |
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committer | Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> | 2024-04-06 11:13:35 -0400 |
commit | b4864ca4affe6527b5958214ef2aa7198eb09220 (patch) | |
tree | 49cc99001cd2cc3bff6223ee0eabbf1f27091f61 /etc | |
parent | 7aea688ee93cc9ce9f8a8bdd5837414bcf250c37 (diff) | |
parent | 3d87d74a23d13e853f202cc589eb750c40f9e2be (diff) | |
download | emacs-b4864ca4affe6527b5958214ef2aa7198eb09220.tar.gz |
Merge from origin/emacs-29
3d87d74a23d ; * etc/PROBLEMS: Entry about slow mouse-wheel with GTK3 ...
c6899603b9c ; * doc/lispref/tips.texi (Documentation Tips): Improve (...
bd2c4d825db ; Update admin/make-tarball.txt
f107dc26e37 ; * etc/PROBLEMS: Add an entry about WebKitGTK (bug#66068).
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diff --git a/etc/PROBLEMS b/etc/PROBLEMS index 19456640299..aee895ce920 100644 --- a/etc/PROBLEMS +++ b/etc/PROBLEMS @@ -178,6 +178,32 @@ The relevant bug report is here: A workaround is to set XLIB_SKIP_ARGB_VISUALS=1 in the environment before starting Emacs, or run Emacs as root. +** Emacs built with xwidgets aborts when displaying WebKit xwidgets + +This happens, for example, when 'M-x xwidget-webkit-browse-url' +prompts for a URL and you type the URL at the prompt. + +The error message might look like this: + + X protocol error: GLXBadWindow on protocol request 151 + Serial no: 4286 + Failing resource ID (if any): 0x3c001c5 + Minor code: 32 + +This happens because starting from version 2.42.1, the WebKitGTK +developers discontinued support for off-screen windows, by presuming +that every window holding a WebView widget is an X server window +eligible for an OpenGL context. Emacs requires placing these widgets +within offscreen windows managed by GTK, for each xwidget might be +displayed in multiple distinct windows, and its contents must be +captured and reproduced within all of them if that be the case. + +To put this another way, WebKitGTK doesn't support displaying a single +widget more than once anymore. + +A possible workaround is to make sure xwidgets are not shown in more +than one window. + ** Emacs crashes with SIGTRAP when trying to start a WebKit xwidget. This could happen if the version of WebKitGTK installed on your system @@ -2063,6 +2089,16 @@ For such programs to function again, Emacs must be run on an X server where the input extension is disabled, or alternatively be configured with the "--without-xinput2" option. +*** Scrolling with mouse-wheel lags in GTK3 builds. + +We don't know why this happens, but one workaround is to build Emacs +with a different toolkit. For example: + + ./configure --without-toolkit-scroll-bars --with-x-toolkit=athena + +This produces a build which uses Athena toolkit, and disables toolkit +scroll bars which could sometimes be slow. + * Runtime problems on character terminals ** The meta key does not work on xterm. |