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

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From Mekeor Melire <mekeor@posteo.de>
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Subject Re: Will Emacs support GTK4? Future of Emacs on Wayland?
Date Fri, 17 Oct 2025 15:50:57 +0200
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2025-10-17 02:39 ldo@nz.invalid:

> On Thu, 16 Oct 2025 13:50:00 +0200, Mekeor Melire wrote:
>
>> How do you imagine Emacs' future support for Wayland?
>
> I noticed a couple of differences in Emacs’ behaviour since moving to the 
> GTK build.

I assume you meant "PGTK (under Wayland)".

> 2) Emacs has lost the ability to distinguish the numeric keypad
> keys from the main keyboard. I had custom commands assigned to
> num-hyphen and num- plus, but those keys now just insert literal
> hyphen and plus characters, so I had to redefine my command
> keystrokes.

I can imagine that GTK version 4 fixes some of these key related
issues.

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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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