emacs-pgtk - Man Page

Emacs with support for Wayland, using the GTK toolkit

Synopsis

emacs-pgtk [ command-line switches ] [ files ... ]

Description

Fedora Linux includes several different builds of GNU Emacs, each using different graphical toolkits (or none at all).

The emacs-pgtk binary uses purely the GTK toolkit, and is suggested for use with Wayland displays.  The Emacs developers recommend not running it on the X Window System.

Note that a favoured build can be selected using the alternatives system.  Note also that Fedora provides a wrapper, emacs-desktop, which will try to guess a suitable build, from those installed, for the current desktop environment.

See Also

alternatives(8), emacs(1), emacs-desktop(1), emacs-gtk+x11(1), emacs-lucid(1), emacs-nw(1),

Authors

Peter Oliver

Referenced By

emacs(1), emacs-desktop(1), emacs-gtk+x11(1), emacs-lucid(1), emacs-nw(1).

2026-06-29 GNU Emacs Fedora Linux