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Re:EXWM (Emacs X Window Manager) by omnicognate on Friday November 20, 2020 @06:39AM (#25159498)
Agree on the terminals - I've never got on with any of the emacs options. I use mate-terminal within EXWM, so at least my terminals appear in the buffers list.

EXWM does indeed block when emacs is busy. I haven't found it a problem with my usage, but I imagine it could be annoying. Killing emacs ends the X session of course, as it's the window manager, but I rarely need to restart emacs. Useful trick: If emacs really is stuck and Ctrl-G isn't working, switching to a virtual terminal (eg. Ctrl-Alt-F2) and running `killall -SIGUSR2 emacs` will usually make it snap out of it. (I haven't had to do that for months, though.)

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Re:EXWM (Emacs X Window Manager) by anoncake on Friday November 20, 2020 @02:28PM (#25163927)
> Killing emacs ends the X session of course, as it's the window manager

If killing Emacs ends the session, that must have a different cause. Killing the WM doesn't usually end the session.

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