From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Rodgers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: How to choose the right emacs on Ubuntu Linux Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2010 21:34:07 -0700 Message-ID: References: <137428.79801.qm@web63005.mail.re1.yahoo.com> <8739r5uw91.fsf@guruji.demimonde> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1292387684 28139 80.91.229.12 (15 Dec 2010 04:34:44 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2010 04:34:44 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Dec 15 05:34:40 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PSj4X-0006Jq-1s for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 15 Dec 2010 05:34:37 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:55058 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PSj4W-00016u-F0 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 14 Dec 2010 23:34:36 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=41909 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PSj4A-00016n-0q for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 14 Dec 2010 23:34:18 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PSj49-0003mr-37 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 14 Dec 2010 23:34:13 -0500 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:50128) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PSj48-0003mf-QB for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 14 Dec 2010 23:34:13 -0500 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PSj47-0006CG-30 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 15 Dec 2010 05:34:11 +0100 Original-Received: from c-24-8-96-241.hsd1.co.comcast.net ([24.8.96.241]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 15 Dec 2010 05:34:11 +0100 Original-Received: from kevin.d.rodgers by c-24-8-96-241.hsd1.co.comcast.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 15 Dec 2010 05:34:11 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 36 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: c-24-8-96-241.hsd1.co.comcast.net User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.4; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101207 Thunderbird/3.1.7 In-Reply-To: <8739r5uw91.fsf@guruji.demimonde> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) 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:77514 Archived-At: On 11/13/10 7:35 AM, Tyler Smith wrote: > If you don't like the GUI features of the GTK emacs, you can turn them > off. I have the following in my .emacs: > > (menu-bar-mode -1) > (fringe-mode 1) > > and I've disabled the toolbar-mode and scroll-bar-mode using the > customize-variable stuff. This gets rid of all the GUI distractions, but > you can still use the alt/meta key, which is tricky to do with emacs-nox > (at least it was tricky to me last time I tried to do so). From etc/PROBLEMS: ... you might also want to consider switching off scroll bars, menu bar, and tool bar. Adding the following forms to your .emacs file will accomplish that, but only after the the initial frame is displayed: (scroll-bar-mode -1) (menu-bar-mode -1) (tool-bar-mode -1) For still quicker startup, put these X resources in your .Xdefaults file: Emacs.verticalScrollBars: off Emacs.menuBar: off Emacs.toolBar: off But I haven't been able to find out how to turn off fringe mode via X resources -- is that a missing feature or a documentation bug? -- Kevin Rodgers Denver, Colorado, USA