From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jay Cotton Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Using X (instead of a terminal) in Emacs compiled from CVS Date: Thu, 01 Sep 2005 08:40:11 -0400 Message-ID: <4316F6AB.7080902@fleeingrabbit.com> References: <43163BA3.8080200@fleeingrabbit.com> <87d5ntihqn.fsf@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1125581071 14298 80.91.229.2 (1 Sep 2005 13:24:31 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 1 Sep 2005 13:24:31 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Sep 01 15:24:31 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EAp3K-0001AC-FJ for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 01 Sep 2005 15:24:27 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EAp7T-0004ch-5J for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 01 Sep 2005 09:28:43 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1EAojd-0006JZ-1b for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 01 Sep 2005 09:04:05 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1EAoi7-0005ZQ-0t for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 01 Sep 2005 09:02:32 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EAohN-0004qd-MR for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 01 Sep 2005 09:01:46 -0400 Original-Received: from [207.7.108.21] (helo=one.textdrive.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1EAoPL-0001BR-Rj for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 01 Sep 2005 08:43:08 -0400 Original-Received: from [192.168.0.109] (pcp991299pcs.nchrls01.sc.comcast.net [68.59.33.170]) by one.textdrive.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id DC5594516F for ; Thu, 1 Sep 2005 12:40:15 +0000 (GMT) User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (X11/20050716) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org In-Reply-To: <87d5ntihqn.fsf@gmail.com> X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:29152 Archived-At: Well, configure options aside, one problem was that I didn't have xlib-dev installed on the system. Once I got that everything worked (with the default options for configure, as you suggested). Thanks. Sean Sieger wrote: >Jay Cotton writes: > > I am trying to set up the latest Emacs on Ubuntu (to replace the > slighter older version I got with apt-get). I configured --with-x and > compiled/installed without any issues, but when I execute the new Emacs, > it runs in the terminal instead of an X window. The older Emacs will run > happily with or without X. Any Ubuntu/Debian users out there know what > could be different with the one that I compiled? > >Jay, I compiled CVS Emacs on Ubuntu GNU/Linux with no options, >I may be wrong, but that option is to configure Emacs to compile >with no X, '--with-x=no', instead of the default in which the >configure script looks for X. > >