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From: kai.grossjohann@gmx.net (Kai Großjohann)
Subject: Re: Can not get 21.3 in window mode
Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2003 11:21:11 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <84k7bmqsxk.fsf@lucy.is.informatik.uni-duisburg.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: bcjvpi$1bf5$1@gwdu112.gwdg.de

Karl Schmid <schmid@ice.mpg.de> writes:

> I downloaded and compiled and installed Emacs 21.3 under SuSE Linux 8.0. 
> Everything went fine, except that starting emacs from the commandline 
> results in the no window (-nw) mode by default. 
>
> Compilation was done with x support on. However, I could not get further.
> What do I need to do (or where can I look up what to do) to start emacs
> in the X mode by default?

When you run "./configure ..other.args..", then it will print at the
end which settings it is going to use.  Did it print that it will use
X11?

>From the same shell where you type "emacs", can you start, say,
"xterm" there?  Maybe Emacs was not allowed to connect to the X display.

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      reply	other threads:[~2003-06-16  9:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-06-16 17:42 Can not get 21.3 in window mode Karl Schmid
2003-06-16  9:21 ` Kai Großjohann [this message]

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