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Date: Sun, 02 Dec 2012 19:00:49 -0500
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On 12/2/2012 6:35 PM, Jim Reisert AD1C wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 2, 2012 at 5:43 AM, Ken Brown <kbrown AT cornell DOT edu> wrote:
>> In this release, for the first time, I've been able to build Cygwin's
>> emacs-X11 with all of the upstream defaults.  In particular, the build uses
>> GTK+-3 instead of GTK+-2, and it supports GNOME's GSettings and GConf
>> features.  A minor consequence of this is that you might see a GTK warning
>> about gtk_window_parse_geometry; this can be ignored.  A more important
>> consequence is that you should have a D-Bus session daemon running before
>> starting emacs under X11.  The simplest way to achieve this is to put the
>> following line at the beginning of your ~/.startxwinrc file:
>>
>>    eval `dbus-launch --sh-syntax`
>>
>> See /usr/share/doc/emacs/README.Cygwin for more information.

 > Hi Ken,
 >
 > After installing, I got these warnings error when I first started Emacs:
 >
 > [JJR:~] $ emacs
 >
 > (emacs:5940): GLib-WARNING **: In call to g_spawn_sync(), exit status
 > of a child process was requested but SIGCHLD action was set to SIG_IGN
 > and ECHILD was received by waitpid(), so exit status can't be
 > returned. This is a bug in the program calling g_spawn_sync(); either
 > don't request the exit status, or don't set the SIGCHLD action.
 >
 > ** (emacs:5940): WARNING **: Abnormal program termination spawning
 > command line `dbus-launch
 > --autolaunch=d4e8d39fb9cc546947a687f94fa28e98 --binary-syntax
 > --close-stderr':
 >
 >

Hi Jim,

Yes, that's why you should have a D-Bus session daemon running before 
starting emacs.

Ken


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