Package: emacs-pgtk
Version: 1:29.4+1-3
Severity: normal

I have Emacs installed in all of my systems. Paricularly, I have
emacs-pgtk all systems where I often use a graphical environment (and
emacs-nox in those where I don't).

Back when I used X11, if I started Emacs and had no $DISPLAY set, it
would open in a terminal. With emacs-pgtk, the behavior is not the
same:

    $ emacs foobar

    (emacs:3988): Gtk-WARNING **: 19:19:10.887: cannot open display: 
    $

This impacted me because I neede to use a remote machine to do work
via scripts (i.e. dch, debcommit) that call /usr/bin/editor and I
found impossible to hand-specify emacs to use -nw; I ended up
installing emacs-nox, but I don't find it to be an acceptable,
transparent-enough solution.

I think emacs-pgtk should behave just as emacs-gtk, falling back to
the console if a windowed environment is not found.

Thanks!

-- System Information:
Debian Release: trixie/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 6.8.12-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), 
LANGUAGE=en_US:en
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages emacs-pgtk depends on:
ii  dconf-gsettings-backend [gsettings-backend]  0.40.0-4+b2
ii  emacs-bin-common                             1:29.4+1-3
ii  emacs-common                                 1:29.4+1-3
ii  libacl1                                      2.3.2-2
ii  libasound2t64                                1.2.11-1+b1
ii  libc6                                        2.38-13
ii  libcairo2                                    1.18.0-3+b1
ii  libdbus-1-3                                  1.14.10-4+b1
ii  libfontconfig1                               2.15.0-1.1
ii  libfreetype6                                 2.13.2+dfsg-1+b4
ii  libgccjit0                                   14.1.0-1
ii  libgdk-pixbuf-2.0-0                          2.42.12+dfsg-1
ii  libgif7                                      5.2.2-1
ii  libglib2.0-0t64                              2.80.3-1
ii  libgmp10                                     2:6.3.0+dfsg-2+b1
ii  libgnutls30t64                               3.8.5-4
ii  libgpm2                                      1.20.7-11
ii  libgtk-3-0t64                                3.24.42-1
ii  libharfbuzz0b                                8.3.0-2+b1
ii  libjansson4                                  2.14-2+b2
ii  libjpeg62-turbo                              1:2.1.5-3
ii  liblcms2-2                                   2.14-2+b1
ii  libotf1                                      0.9.16-4+b1
ii  libpango-1.0-0                               1.54.0+ds-1
ii  libpng16-16t64                               1.6.43-5
ii  librsvg2-2                                   2.58.0+dfsg-1
ii  libselinux1                                  3.5-2+b2
ii  libsqlite3-0                                 3.46.0-1
ii  libsystemd0                                  256-1
ii  libtiff6                                     4.5.1+git230720-4
ii  libtinfo6                                    6.5-2
ii  libtree-sitter0                              0.20.8-2+b1
ii  libwebpdecoder3                              1.4.0-0.1
ii  libwebpdemux2                                1.4.0-0.1
ii  libxml2                                      2.12.7+dfsg-3
ii  zlib1g                                       1:1.3.dfsg+really1.3.1-1

Versions of packages emacs-pgtk recommends:
ii  fonts-noto-color-emoji  2.042-1

Versions of packages emacs-pgtk suggests:
pn  emacs-common-non-dfsg  <none>

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