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  • From: Rohan Nicholls <rohan.nicholls AT pareto.nl>
  • To: sm-discuss <sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] emacs not using X : Solved
  • Date: Fri, 06 Aug 2004 16:42:46 +0200

Oops,

Well I guess I must have compiled it the first time before having xorg isntalled (probably to have a nice console environment to work in). Having recompiled it has found X and it happy.

Am now happy with fully functional emacs. :-D

rohan

Rohan Nicholls wrote:

> I have made some progress with this, and it seems that emacs in the config file is not finding X,
>
> What window system should Emacs use? none
> What toolkit should Emacs use? none
> Where do we find X Windows header files? NONE
> Where do we find X Windows libraries? NONE
>
> And there are references earlier that it can' t find the X stuff,
>
> checking for X... no
> checking for XFree86 in /usr/X386... no
>
> Does anyone know what might be missing? From what I can see the X files are in the standard place and firefox happily compiled and installed, and is working perfectly, so I am not sure what might be the problem.
>
> TIA,
>
> Rohan
> Rohan Nicholls wrote:
>
>> 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
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