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

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2025-10-17 09:51 nunojsilva@invalid.invalid:

> On 2025-10-16, Mekeor Melire wrote:
>
>> But GTK4 has also disadvantages: Its support for X11 has been
>> deprecated in Feburary 2025[2]:
>
> GNU Emacs now requires GTK+ to run under X11? (And no, I don't
> mean "I can run it in a terminal emulator", I mean it at least
> used to have other windowing options besides GTK+.)

No.  There is a misunderstanding.

For X11, you choose one of multiple toolkits, e.g. Lucid.

For Wayland, Emacs recommends to build Emacs with PGTK which uses
GTK+ version 3.

GTK version 4 has deprecated its own support for X11.

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      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
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    Re: Will Emacs support GTK4? Future of Emacs on Wayland? Mekeor Melire <mekeor@posteo.de> - 2025-10-17 15:49 +0200
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