Proposal - functions for access to desktop information

[Zajcev Evgeny]

Aidan Kehoe <kehoea at parhasard.net> writes:

[..]
> That’s not workable for implementing what Jonathan wants to do, though. This
> is from one of my current sessions, started in a screen(1) pseudo-tty, with
> a gnuclient X11 window:
>
>   (getenv "DISPLAY")
>   => nil ;; This means we can’t trust getenv
>   (selected-device)
>   => #<x-device on ":0.0" 0x1400f016>
>   (XOpenDisplay (device-connection (selected-device)))
>   => (error "Network error: connection failed, \"Connection refused\", \"bonbon\", \"X-bonbon:0\"")
>   ;; That was because the connection wasn’t a TCP connection, it was a local
>   ;; unix connection. 

Yes, xlib requires TCP connections available to X, because of (yet?) 
no support of unix sockets in (S)XEmacs.  With xlib-ffi (only SXEmacs)
there is no such problem, becase xlib-ffi uses native C Xlib routines.

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