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[Rohan Nicholls <rohan.nicholls AT pareto.nl>]

Hey there all,

I am having a problem with emacs and X.  It is installed and running 
happily, but something seems to be missing....

Whenever I call emacs it does not recognize that there is an X session.

Checking $DISPLAY  gives 0:0

but if I check the variable window-system it comes up nil (the value if 
you are displaying in a terminal).  None of the other programs have this 
problem, has anyone run into this before and found a fix for it. (I have 
googled around and come up with nothing).

I also ssh into another server and it happily uses X when I call emacs 
on my machine.

Any help would be much appreciated, as the terminal is a bit of a pain 
to use (screws up keybindings, horrible colours for syntax etc.).

Thanks,

Rohan