From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Sanest way to make emacs behave on a Solaris OS Date: Mon, 05 Aug 2013 19:50:12 +0300 Message-ID: <83pptsw08r.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87d2pzj4m2.fsf@VLAN-3434.student.uu.se> <87ob9izk9k.fsf@VLAN-3434.student.uu.se> <87fvusw968.fsf@newsguy.com> <20130803070334.GA2266@dismay.proulx.com> <871u68wov1.fsf@VLAN-3434.student.uu.se> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1375721440 20581 80.91.229.3 (5 Aug 2013 16:50:40 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 5 Aug 2013 16:50:40 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Aug 05 18:50:40 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1V6NzT-0001fj-Tb for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 05 Aug 2013 18:50:40 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:51045 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1V6NzT-0002xg-I9 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 05 Aug 2013 12:50:39 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:47133) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1V6Nz4-0002oE-0U for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 05 Aug 2013 12:50:21 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1V6Nyw-0003ts-HA for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 05 Aug 2013 12:50:13 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout20.012.net.il ([80.179.55.166]:57100) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1V6Nyw-0003s2-A1 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 05 Aug 2013 12:50:06 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout20.012.net.il by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0MR200G00H9HCN00@a-mtaout20.012.net.il> for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 05 Aug 2013 19:50:04 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0MR200GK0HFG2MC0@a-mtaout20.012.net.il> for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 05 Aug 2013 19:50:04 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 X-Received-From: 80.179.55.166 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:92727 Archived-At: > From: Dan Espen > Date: Mon, 05 Aug 2013 11:32:04 -0400 > > > There was never such a change, not recently anyway. Emacs always > > behaved like what you see now, since it got the GUI frame support on > > X. Perhaps you were used to run an Emacs that was built without X > > support, or something else that didn't allow Emacs to create a GUI > > frame. > > X enabled Emacs seem to behave like any other tty/x enabled application. > If $DISPLAY is set, you get the GUI. > > Type: > > DISPLAY= emacs > > and you get text mode. Of course, that's what I meant by "something else". It's rather rare to see a working X system where DISPLAY is not set correctly.