From fc0c795c4e472e26aab40d3d9d0fbadaa1664d74 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: William Carroll <wpcarro@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 2020 10:10:24 +0100
Subject: Debug failed Emacs initialization

My newly minted macro for defining monitors introduced two bugs:
1. Laptop defined its position in terms of 4k-horizontal and 4k-horizontal
   defined its position in terms of laptop, I introduced a circular dependency.
2. The identifier, `laptop-monitor`, which `window-manager.el` depends on, is
   now defined as `laptop`.

A friendly reminder to myself to always test new Emacs builds to make sure that
everything can initialize properly. This is something that my CI should be
automating, but ever since I moved flats, I lost my CI and need to restore it.

This is another reminder to drop into a TTY when Emacs fails to initialize, run
`nix-env --rollback`, then attempt to restart X. But this time, debugging this
entirely from a TTY wasn't so disappointing.
---
 emacs/.emacs.d/wpc/display.el | 11 ++++++++---
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

(limited to 'emacs/.emacs.d/wpc/display.el')

diff --git a/emacs/.emacs.d/wpc/display.el b/emacs/.emacs.d/wpc/display.el
index f478619c702b..56f16e3e0c47 100644
--- a/emacs/.emacs.d/wpc/display.el
+++ b/emacs/.emacs.d/wpc/display.el
@@ -54,10 +54,14 @@ See the man-page for xrandr for more details."
        (prelude-start-process
         :name ,(format "display-enable-%s" name)
         :command ,(format
-                   "xrandr --output %s --%s --%s %s --auto --size %dx%d --rate %0.2f --dpi %d --rotate %s"
+                   "xrandr --output %s --%s %s --auto --size %dx%d --rate %0.2f --dpi %d --rotate %s"
                    output
                    (if primary "primary" "noprimary")
-                   (car position) (eval (cadr position))
+                   (if position
+                       (format "--%s %s"
+                               (car position)
+                               (eval (cadr position)))
+                     "")
                    (car size) (cadr size)
                    rate
                    dpi
@@ -71,10 +75,11 @@ See the man-page for xrandr for more details."
                      "xrandr --output %s --off"
                      output)))))
 
+;; I'm omitting the position argument to avoid a circular dependency between
+;; laptop and 4k-horizontal.
 (display-register laptop
                   :output "eDP1"
                   :primary nil
-                  :position (below display-4k-horizontal)
                   :size (3840 2160)
                   :rate 30.0
                   :dpi 144
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