From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Robert J. Chassell" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel,gmane.emacs.pretest.bugs Subject: Re: 23.0.50; DISPLAY env var bug on w32? Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2008 21:13:29 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: <47827356.70005@gmail.com> Reply-To: bob@rattlesnake.com NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1199740430 6161 80.91.229.12 (7 Jan 2008 21:13:50 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2008 21:13:50 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jan 07 22:14:07 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JBzIN-0002sy-0v for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 07 Jan 2008 22:14:07 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JBzHz-0005d9-Tv for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 07 Jan 2008 16:13:43 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JBzHw-0005bS-1W for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 07 Jan 2008 16:13:40 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JBzHu-0005Za-Tt for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 07 Jan 2008 16:13:39 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JBzHu-0005ZH-Ni for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 07 Jan 2008 16:13:38 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JBzHu-00019l-Jf for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 07 Jan 2008 16:13:38 -0500 Original-Received: from mail.gnu.org ([199.232.76.166] helo=mx10.gnu.org) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1JBzHu-0003t2-BC for emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org; Mon, 07 Jan 2008 16:13:38 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JBzHr-000195-7U for emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org; Mon, 07 Jan 2008 16:13:38 -0500 Original-Received: from cpe-69-204-164-144.nycap.res.rr.com ([69.204.164.144] helo=rattlesnake.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JBzHq-00018j-Tq for emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org; Mon, 07 Jan 2008 16:13:35 -0500 Original-Received: by rattlesnake.com via sendmail from stdin id (Debian Smail3.2.0.115) Mon, 7 Jan 2008 21:13:29 +0000 (UTC) In-reply-to: <47827356.70005@gmail.com> (lennart.borgman@gmail.com) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6 (newer, 1) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:86515 gmane.emacs.pretest.bugs:20540 Archived-At: Lennart Borgman wrote, To reproduce the problem do emacs -Q M-x server-mode Then from the command line try to open a file, for example emacsclient.exe COPYING This fails with the message C:\emacs\u\080104\emacs\bin>emacsclient.exe COPYING Waiting for Emacs... *ERROR*: Don't know how to create a frame on window system x I see COPYING on a GNU/Linux Debian distribution with the CVS instance updated this morning at 10:47 UTC when I do /usr/local/src/emacs/src/emacs -Q M-x server-mode with the use of emacsclient /usr/local/src/emacs/etc/COPYING The value of the DISPLAY variable is: echo $DISPLAY :0.0 Also, I can cause COPYING to appear in another frame with emacsclient -c /usr/local/src/emacs/etc/COPYING As far as I know, Microsoft uses backslashes rather than forward slashes; if so and you are using Microsoft only operating system, unless you do something else, your example would not know of the X Windowing system. I see Windowing system distributor `Microsoft Corp.', version 5.1.2600 configured using `configure --with-gcc (3.4) --cflags -Ic:/g/include' Does that windowing system know about the X Windowing system? -- Robert J. Chassell GnuPG Key ID: 004B4AC8 bob@rattlesnake.com bob@gnu.org http://www.rattlesnake.com http://www.teak.cc