Questions tagged [daemon]
Starting Emacs in daemon mode
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How to run emacs as a systemd service with Wayland on Ubuntu 22.04+?
The stock systemd user service file for emacs 29.1 looks like this: [Unit] Description=Emacs text editor Documentation=info:emacs man:emacs(1) https://gnu.org/software/emacs/ [Service] Type=notify ...
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using desktop.el in --daemon mode
I eventually figured out that the answer to this question https://groups.google.com/g/gnu.emacs.help/c/WZoW0LlqX6c/m/08Sa6alHp1oJ was to choose --bg-daemon rather than --fg-daemon when starting the ...
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Emacs Daemon Multiple user on Mac best practices
I'm new to Emacs, so apologies if this is covered elsewhere. I'm running latest macOS 12.4; and downloaded emacs.app from emacsformacosx.com so I'm on Emacs 28.1-4 . I have an admin user, which I ...
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Emacs daemon. First emacslient frame loads reasonably fast. Subsequent emacsclient frames load almost instantaneously. Why?
Emacs daemon greatly reduces time to load the first frame with emacsclient. However, when visiting a file with emacsclient, subsequent emacsclient frames load much faster than the first. Command Load ...
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How are a daemon and a server different in Emacs?
After running (server-start) in Emacs, I evaluated (daemonp) and (server-running-p) The first one returns nil, whereas the second one returns t. So, how are a daemon and a server different in Emacs? ...
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emacsclient: connect: Connection refused
I am trying to run emacs-daemon on a remote machine (connected via ssh), which was working fine. After I try to setup ports for mosh between 60000:61000 emacs-daemon started not to open :-( The way I ...
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emacsclient unable to connect to daemon under snap installation of Emacs
I am facing with a well know problem, when I try to start emacs --daemon on a remote machine, I am getting following error emacsclient: connect: Connection refused: $ ps aux | grep -E "[e]macs&...
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Preload problem: Emacs as daemon in X
Background: I want to use emacs like tmux which can run as persistent session as well as shorten the time for me to start bringing up emacs when I want to (as inspired by these: Emacs and a Tmux ...
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