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

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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