Re: (gnome gtk) behavior when opening the display fails

[Greg Troxel]

gregory benison <address@hidden> writes:

> i.e. if the display can't be opened for some reason, trying to load
> (gnome gtk) causes the program simply to exit... which I suppose is
> correct behavior, but might it be nice to have a way of catching the
> error so that a program could, for example, print out a "hey, I can't
> open any displays, what should I do" type of message?

It's not the right behavior.  Displaying something is only one aspect of
behavior, and the program shouldn't even try to open the display on
use-modules.  It should only open it when needed, and then just throw an
error when an open fails during use.

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