[X2Go-User] Emacs crashes on start

[Tristan Miller]

Dear all,

On Wed, 9 Nov 2016 16:36:18 +0100, Tristan Miller
<psychonaut at nothingisreal.com> wrote:
> Have there been any further developments regarding the problem of
> Emacs crashing when run over x2go?

Apparently this problem still exists, and is caused by the GTK+ bug
described at <https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=85715>.  Here
are the various workarounds I know about:

1. Run Emacs in text mode (emacs -nw).  This is fine if you don't
need pull-down menus, mouse support, etc.

2. Run Emacs over SSH instead of over x2go (ssh -f MYHOST emacs).  On a
fast connection, this is fine if you're just editing text.  If you need
to launch graphics-intensive programs such as web browsers or PDF
viewers, etc., then this should be done separately from an x2go session
rather than directly from Emacs.

3. Use a version of Emacs compiled with a different X toolkit,
such as Lucid.  You can compile such an Emacs yourself by passing
--with-x-toolkit=lucid to the configure script.  Some GNU/Linux
distribution provide binary packages for this:

* In Fedora, use the emacs-lucid package.

* In openSUSE, the default emacs package includes both the GTK+ and
  Lucid versions. To use the Lucid version, call Emacs as follows:
  EMACS_TOOLKIT=x11 emacs

Regards,
Tristan

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