Running emacs as a daemon, Gnus shows X-Faces using ImageMagick in a new window

["Adam Sjøgren" <asjo@koldfront.dk>]

Sometimes I start Emacs up in the terminal, like this:

  emacs --daemon && TERM=xterm-256color emacsclient --create-frame --alternate-editor="" --eval "(gnus)" -nw

And I run into, I think, this problem:

  ;; Fixme: This isn't the right thing for mixed graphical and non-graphical
  ;; frames in a session.
  (defcustom gnus-article-x-face-command
    (if (gnus-image-type-available-p 'pbm)
        'gnus-display-x-face-in-from
      "{ echo \
  '/* Format_version=1, Width=48, Height=48, Depth=1, Valid_bits_per_item=16 */'\
  ; uncompface; } | icontopbm | display -")
    "String or function to be executed to display an X-Face header.
  If it is a string, the command will be executed in a sub-shell
  asynchronously.  The compressed face will be piped to this command."
    :type '(choice string
                   (function-item gnus-display-x-face-in-from)
                   function)
    :version "21.1"
    :group 'gnus-picon
    :group 'gnus-article-washing)

That is, if I open a graphical frame (using 'emacsclient --create-frame
--alternate-editor=""') later, every time I view an article with an
X-Face: header, a new window pops up - ImageMagick showing the X-Face.

I guess (gnus-image-type-available-p 'pbm) is only evaluated once, and
if it is in a tty-frame, it's nil, but in an X-frame it is t.

Funnily the Face: header is shown "inline", directly in the Emacs window.

How can I fix this? Do I just change it from a defcustom to a defun?

It's really annoying that Gnus behaves differently depending on whether
Emacs was originally started with a tty-frame or an X-frame, rather than
looking at what kind the current is, and adjusting accordingly.


(It's annoying enough that you can open an X-frame and close it again,
and close the X-connection, without quitting Emacs, but that's a whole
different can of [gtk-]worms.)


  Best regards,

    Adam

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 "Why do you ask so much?"                                  Adam Sjøgren
 "I'm a kid. It's what we do."                         asjo@koldfront.dk