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Priority: ➖ Normal Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~60 minutes Change: Feature Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant Evaluator
participant DeferredGui as deferred_gui::install
participant NativeLoop as Deferred native loop
participant Wayland as Selected Wayland socket
Evaluator->>DeferredGui: Request display initialization
DeferredGui->>NativeLoop: Send display request
NativeLoop->>Wayland: Connect to selected socket
Wayland-->>NativeLoop: Provide Wayland connection
NativeLoop-->>DeferredGui: Return opened display resources
DeferredGui-->>Evaluator: Install display and frame callbacks
Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to Deferred Wayland attachment is intended to preserve daemon evaluation while GUI frames are created. Forced deletion of the retained display terminal is rejected, preventing the reported stale-terminal reuse path; no concrete merge-blocking risk is established. Security Architecture ReviewSecurity architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to Graphical attachment remains available through existing authorized client requests, and the daemon retains only one selected display connection. No new authentication bypass or privilege escalation was established. Remaining uncertainty concerns cancellation and recovery under a real display server, particularly after failed or interrupted frame creation. Retained concerns Security review detailsSecurity Blast Radius
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It spans ~45 files of safety-critical daemon lifecycle, OS signal handling, native GUI realization, and a newly introduced third-party winit fork, which require human verification beyond automated review.
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This PR adds deferred native GUI attachment to Neomacs's headless daemon foundation (follow-up to #451, closing #434). It lets Neomacs start with no external display, load and start an in-process Wayland compositor (EWM) from Lisp, then create native frames without replacing the evaluator or dynamic-module state. Native display/event-loop/renderer ownership stays on the OS main thread with a valid zero-window state between attachments; frame creation waits for native realization and rolls back the exact frame on failure, and closing the last GUI frame leaves the daemon running. The Wayland backend now receives an explicitly supplied connection through a pinned winit fork instead of mutating process environment variables after threads start.
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- Deferred GUI initialization: compositor is started from Lisp post-daemon-startup, native frame creation blocks on readiness and rolls back failed requests, last-frame deletion keeps the daemon alive.
- Explicit Wayland connection via a pinned
winitfork revision (no post-thread env mutation). - New opt-in acceptance harness (
test-daemon-gui) with a real EWMHeadlessBackendadapter, Lisp proof scripts, render-node safety validation, and daemon documentation.
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| Cargo.toml | Repoints winit to a pinned fork revision for explicit Wayland connections; other patched deps unchanged. |
| crates/neovm-core/.../runtime/eval/command_loop.rs | First-entry-wins shutdown_with_hooks and daemon configuration/zero-window lifecycle. |
| crates/neovm-core/.../system/os_signal/mod.rs | SIGTERM/SIGHUP routed through GNU-style termination-signal latch; wake-pipe install hardened. |
| crates/neovm-core/.../system/callproc/{spawn.rs,mod.rs} | Retain child exit status before spawn; call-process-region stdin refactor. |
| crates/neovm-core/.../display/window_cmds/mod.rs | Deferred GUI init, native-readiness wait with exact-frame rollback, last-frame/daemon retention guards. |
| crates/neomacs/src/{deferred_gui.rs,client_daemon.rs} | Deferred GUI control module and automatic local daemon start/connect. |
| crates/neomacs-display-runtime/src/render_thread/{startup.rs,frame_windows.rs,native_window_wait.rs} | Daemon-root retention, readiness replies, lease-based native-window cancellation. |
| scripts/test-daemon-gui.py, scripts/daemon_gui_safety.py, scripts/test-daemon-gui-fault-controls.py | Opt-in acceptance harness, render-node validation, fault-controls. |
| test/daemon-gui/{start.el,cycle.el,clients.el,ewm-headless.patch} | Lisp proof fixtures and the disclosed EWM headless acceptance adapter. |
| docs/daemon.md, README.md | Daemon/GUI documentation incl. pinned EWM revision. |
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| # Fork branch: patch (includes inherited fixes and explicit Wayland connections | ||
| # with failed-construction retry; deferred daemon startup never mutates display env). | ||
| winit = { git = "https://github.com/thanosapollo/winit", rev = "6884804b87b93c228b97ba683ddcc7d0acb4d023" } |
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The winit change is proposed upstream in eval-exec/winit#1. Once it lands there I'll repoint the dependency to an eval-exec/winit revision.
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Review comments at @crates/neomacs/src/daemon.rs:
- Around line 88-115: In daemon.rs lines 88-115, remove the fixed read timeout
on parent and send SIGKILL only when the readiness handshake returns EOF or an
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Review comments at @scripts/test-daemon-gui.py:
- Around line 107-110: Update the evaluate function so neomacsclient’s -w wait
is derived from its timeout parameter rather than fixed at 5 seconds, allowing
the client to wait slightly longer than the subprocess timeout.
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It adds deferred native GUI attachment to the daemon foundation from #451: Neomacs can start display-less, start an in-process compositor from Lisp, and create or recreate native GUI frames without replacing its evaluator or dynamic-module state — frame creation waits for native realization and rolls back on failure, and closing the last GUI frame leaves the daemon running. |
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The pinned fork commit 6884804b87 adds one change on top of the current eval-exec/winit pin 2290f91c60: an event loop can be built on a caller-owned Wayland connection, and a failed construction can be retried. A display-free daemon needs this to attach its first native frame without changing WAYLAND_DISPLAY after its threads have started.
Add what a display-free daemon needs to attach native windows after startup. The render loop can be built on a given Wayland socket and holds a valid state with zero windows. A RealizeFrame command creates a frame window and replies only once the window is ready, so admission to the queue no longer counts as success. Native window construction can be cancelled within a deadline, and a pending primary window can be retired. Desktop font settings, GPU startup and window-event handling follow the same rules, so closing the last window or abandoning a pending one never stops the loop.
A display host can now supply a GUI display initializer. When one is present, x-open-connection and a graphical x-create-frame ask it to connect to the requested display, or to WAYLAND_DISPLAY when none is given, on the evaluator thread. The resulting connection gets its own terminal, separate from the daemon's initial terminal and any TTY frames, and frames created on it use that terminal. Deleting the last frame does not delete it, so the next make-frame can reuse it. x-create-frame now waits until the host reports the native window ready, polling for quit, with a 15-second limit. If realization fails it deletes that exact frame, so no phantom frame is left behind. x-display-list reports the attached connection. A late WindowClose for a frame the daemon has already deleted is ignored, so it cannot end the root.
Run every daemon in two parts: the evaluator runs on a persistent worker thread, and the OS main thread owns a native display that starts out empty. The first graphical request, from make-frame, x-open-connection or a client -c, connects on main. Startup does not need DISPLAY or WAYLAND_DISPLAY to be set. After connecting, frames are realized on the same evaluator, so Lisp and dynamic-module state carry over. Closing the last GUI frame leaves the daemon and its connection running, and a later frame request opens a new one. Attaching is limited to a single Wayland connection. X11 and a second display are rejected with an error. Native attach and frame readiness are bounded and can be cancelled, and a failed attach leaves the daemon as it was. neo-win.el now reads WAYLAND_DISPLAY before DISPLAY when it picks the display name.
GNU Fterminal_live_p (terminal.c) reports a display terminal's type from the terminal itself, regardless of its frames or the selected frame. Neomacs looked at the terminal's frames, so a retained daemon display connection with no frames left was reported as t. server-delete-client (server.el) then tried to delete that connection while finishing a graphical client whose last frame had closed. A terminal registered as a window-system terminal now always returns the window-system symbol. Other terminals keep the frame-based classification. Explicit delete-terminal on the retained daemon display connection is rejected before any hooks run, because that connection cannot be retired and reopened on its own. Internal teardown and other terminals are not affected.
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- Around line 7230-7247: Update the fallback in the deferred-frame metrics path
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thanos already carries the content of these heads, verbatim or as the personal variant it ships; this merge keeps the tree and records the heads so later upstream merges of them need no re-resolution. - contrib/repeat-backpressure 551220e (eval-exec#459): carried; the rebase only moved to FrontendKey, as the main merge did. - contrib/nested-reader-recovery 91a4022 (eval-exec#460): carried, combined with the command-error reporting below. - fix/command-error-literal-message 271a202 (eval-exec#489): carried as 56339fa, 98b7742, 0ebd026. - fix/non-ascii-face-width 9a52a76 (eval-exec#481): carried as 13ad539 and 7eee365. - feature/builtin-mcp c9542d3 (eval-exec#480): personal endpoint variant with the same reply bound (677591e) and documentation (e0ee6c3). - fix/text-prop-interval-recycling 38b1e0a (eval-exec#479): personal interval recycling passes the same retention tests. - feature/gui-daemon-publication 1cd96f8 (eval-exec#454): personal deferred GUI daemon, a superset. Kept deliberately: terminal-live-p classifies every terminal by its output method (GNU Fterminal_live_p), an unregistered frame's native-window wait fails closed, and neomacs-set-frame-opacity passes integer percentages through unchanged, since alpha-background already reads a fixnum as a percentage (GNU gui_set_alpha_background).
Once the primary window is adopted, x-create-frame on a display-free daemon fell back to 80x40 cells with the cell size truncated first and no room for the scroll bar, fringes, menu bar or tool bar. Move the startup GUI sizing into neovm-core and use it for both paths.
Implements the daemon GUI attach requested in #434.
This lets a display-free daemon attach native GUI frames later.
neomacs --daemonstarts without DISPLAY or WAYLAND_DISPLAY. Thenmake-frame,x-open-connectionorneomacsclient -cconnects to a Wayland socket and creates real frames on the same evaluator, so Lisp and dynamic-module state carry over. Closing the last GUI frame leaves the daemon and its connection running.This PR used to carry the daemon foundation as well. That part has since landed on main: e64b969 as 6a9e0f8 and dcb00cb as 1f89692, both via #451. The startup-ownership half of cc0ced7 is now 992b9fb. The branch has been rebuilt on 0cd0a73 and contains only what is still missing:
terminal-live-preport a window-system terminal by its output method, as GNUFterminal_live_pdoes, even after its last frame is gone. Without it,server-delete-clientwould delete the retained connection when a graphical client finishes. It also rejects explicitdelete-terminalon that connection.This works together with d51f41d: if a graphical attach fails,
server.elanswers-window-system-unsupportedand the client retries on the terminal. X11 and a second display are rejected with an error.The EWM headless acceptance harness and the default-off fault-injection hooks from the earlier revision are not part of this PR. Upstream removed the
xtaskdaemon runner they depended on.Verification on this branch was headless only:
daemon_lifecyclenextest target passed, 34/34, including a new failed-attach test.window_system_preloadtests and twomain_testGUI-startup tests.cargo check --tests.Graphical attach was not re-tested on this rebase.
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