bug#81580: 30.2; frame resizing does not work under KDE Plasma / Wayland

Sean Whitton <[email protected]> Sun, 09 Aug 2026 10:27:59 +0100

Newsgroups	gmane.emacs.bugs,gmane.linux.debian.devel.emacsen
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Johan Myréen [08/Aug  9:48pm +03] wrote:
> On Sat, 8 Aug 2026 at 19:59, martin rudalics <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>>  > 'emacs' is a "metapackage" [1][2]. The question is thus: Why does, in a
>>  > Kubuntu environment, 'sudo apt install emacs' install the emacs-gtk
>> package,
>>  > when the emacs-pgtk package would be better suited?
>>
>> Johan Myréen has repeatedly asked for such a step in the past.  But this
>> is a desktop issue.  I never install emacs as a package but on xfce/xfwm
>> I would strongly oppose having the PGTK build as default.
>
>
> I see this as a Linux distribution issue. The major distributions (Ubuntu,
> Fedora, Debian) default to Wayland in their newest versions, and are in the
> process of dropping the X11 session altogether. On these distributions I
> think it would make sense to make the PGTK version the default. On the
> other hand, on distros like Mint and other distros using X11 window
> managers, the PGTK version should not be offered by default, or preferably
> not at all.
>
> This is of course up to the distro makers to decide, and we can only give
> recommendations.

I don't maintain Emacs in Debian anymore.

I agree that if GNOME and KDE both default to Wayland, the emacs-pgtk
package ought to be the default variant installed by the metapackage.

-- 
Sean Whitton

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