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Re: Will Emacs support GTK4? Future of Emacs on Wayland?

From Mekeor Melire <mekeor@posteo.de>
Newsgroups comp.emacs
Subject Re: Will Emacs support GTK4? Future of Emacs on Wayland?
Date 2025-10-17 16:07 +0200
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2025-10-16 23:29 jmclnx@SPAMisBADgmail.com:

> GNU Emacs with GTK3 has issues on my NetBSD system.  The fix is
> to manually compile GNU Emacs to use GTK2 in pkgsrc.

Note that GNU Emacs still supports “'gtk' (the default), 'athena',
or 'motif' ('yes' and 'lucid' are synonyms for 'athena')” [1] as
X11 toolkits.  If GTK makes problems under NetBSD+X11, you could
give Athena and Motif a try.

For GNU Emacs, it does not make sense to offer GTK4 as a toolkit
for X11 because GTK4 has deprecated its support for X11.  But for
Wayland users, it makes sense for Emacs to offer a PGTK4 build
because GTK version 4 improved Wayland features.

[1] Quote from INSTALL file in GNU Emacs repository.

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Will Emacs support GTK4? Future of Emacs on Wayland? Mekeor Melire <mekeor@posteo.de> - 2025-10-16 13:50 +0200
  Re: Will Emacs support GTK4? Future of Emacs on Wayland? Aidan Kehoe <kehoea@parhasard.net> - 2025-10-16 14:40 +0100
    Re: Will Emacs support GTK4? Future of Emacs on Wayland? John McCue <jmclnx@SPAMisBADgmail.com> - 2025-10-16 23:29 +0000
      Re: Will Emacs support GTK4? Future of Emacs on Wayland? Mekeor Melire <mekeor@posteo.de> - 2025-10-17 16:07 +0200
        Re: Will Emacs support GTK4? Future of Emacs on Wayland? Nuno Silva <nunojsilva@invalid.invalid> - 2025-10-18 10:28 +0100
          Re: Will Emacs support GTK4? Future of Emacs on Wayland? Mekeor Melire <mekeor@posteo.de> - 2025-10-20 15:02 +0200
    Re: Will Emacs support GTK4? Future of Emacs on Wayland? Mekeor Melire <mekeor@posteo.de> - 2025-10-17 16:19 +0200
  Re: Will Emacs support GTK4? Future of Emacs on Wayland? Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-10-17 02:39 +0000
    Re: Will Emacs support GTK4? Future of Emacs on Wayland? Mekeor Melire <mekeor@posteo.de> - 2025-10-17 15:50 +0200
  Re: Will Emacs support GTK4? Future of Emacs on Wayland? Nuno Silva <nunojsilva@invalid.invalid> - 2025-10-17 09:51 +0100
    Re: Will Emacs support GTK4? Future of Emacs on Wayland? Mekeor Melire <mekeor@posteo.de> - 2025-10-17 15:49 +0200
      Re: Will Emacs support GTK4? Future of Emacs on Wayland? Nuno Silva <nunojsilva@invalid.invalid> - 2025-10-18 00:05 +0100

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