Re: Killing a frame sometimes kills emacs

[Jan Djärv]

Tassilo Horn skrev 2011-10-11 08:46:

> For me and I guess for most users, localhost:0, unix:0 (*), :0.0, and :0
> are all the same in practice, only localhost:1 or :2 actually mean other
> displays.  So I'd simply strip localhost and unix before the colon and
> dot-zeros.  (Maybe there should be an option for that, or some lisp
> function that would be called to transform the display name if it is
> defined...)

It is probably better to use some heruistics to see if two displays are really 
the same.  If the root window id and the default visual id are the same, they 
probably are the same display.  You can throw in protocol version, vendor 
string, screen dimension checks also.

        Jan D.