Re: option for loading up a gui specific emacs daemon

[Alex Hutcheson]

Have you tried starting emacs with:

emacsclient -c -a ""

That should start a daemon if one isn't already running. I can't easily check the value of (display-graphic-p) during loadup right now, but it would be easy to try.

On Tue, Dec 13, 2016 at 6:02 PM, Filipe Silva <address@hidden> wrote:

Dear developers of the mighty emacs editor, 

I'd like to load emacs with emacs --daemon=gui and then connect to it with emacsclient -c --sever-file=gui.

This works almost right. The problem is that various popular packages make extensive use of the (display-graphic-p) function/predicate to query frame capabilities. For example, a theme package may query (display-graphic-p) and assign gui or tty colors accordingly. 

the thing is that(display-graphic-p) always returns nil in a emacs --deamon type of loading, because emacs does not know if you are using emacsclient with a gui or a tty. 

Is there a way to say to emacs something like, "look, I'm starting you as a daemon, but I promise I'll only connect to you with gui frames, so for all intents and purposes, pretend that you are being started up as a gui". 

If there is not a way to do that, maybe we could add that kind of option? 

The impact of not having this options is that cosmetic packages that make use of (display-graphic-p) always look off in a emacs --daemon loading scenario. 

thanks in advance, 

Ninrod

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Alex Hutcheson

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